Radial Works Media

Keaghan in Dreamside

There is more to your home than what you’ve seen. There is a place you have never stepped foot in. Your home has an outside and an inside– it also has a Dreamside. If you have a very healthy dose of curiosity and courage, you might be able to find it. In fact, on an afternoon not too many days ago, a young boy named Keaghan discovered the way in! Dreamside is a place of mystery and wonder, but also of great danger. During his journey through Dreamside, Keaghan meets some very strange characters. But also wandering the labyrinth halls of Dreamside is a monstrous creature that has no intention of letting Keaghan find his way back out!

Severance, Part 2: Under the gun

With Beck captured by Cam, a Bullet Banshee, Reeve is left to his own devices in the Tech Pens of Gamide. Things don’t get better for either group as they find themselves ambushed by the same corporation which has doggedly pursued Reeve across the galaxy.

With their lives imperiled at every turn, Beck and Cam must put aside their differences if they are to reunite with Reeve, locate a mechanic for Beck’s ship, and escape the lawless planet they find themselves.

Dead End Bridge

Leonard was nothing but a grit fiend, whiling his days away in a high-rise slum on the wrong side of what used to be the George Washington Bridge. That all changed when Camille, a beautiful woman from his favorite dive bar, drew him into a plot to kill her boyfriend, a dangerous and abusive local gangster. Suddenly Leonard is sucked into a world of spine-tapping arachmods and ruthless gang warfare in 22nd-century Manhattan, muddling through a half-baked scheme that may save Camille’s life — or cost him his own.

A Small and Perfect Work of Art

An amateur cryptozoologist tracks a two-tailed flying squirrel through the Pacific Northwest. An alienated hacker returns home to Birmingham to visit his dying mother. A failed science fiction writer moves to a new medium in an attempt to create a lasting work of art. In these and other stories, John Shutt explores the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic travails of people on the edges of society and sanity.

This short story collection includes A Note from a Man in a Tree, A Small and Perfect Work of Art, Zay Shun, Goodbye Zyxxnra, What Price Bananas?, The Contents of Harold Fredrickson’s Pockets on the Day He Died, The Zen Master, A Brief Eulogy for Sammy Banyan, and Knuckle.

A Weighted Soul

The living aren’t haunted by the dead – the souls of the dead are haunted by the living.

The drifting soul of a father and husband discovers that the afterlife isn’t what any of us have imagined. Instead, he finds himself hiding in the darkest moments of his life on Earth. This is a story of a soul that’s stuck in a repeating review of a life lived only on cruise-control. “A Weighted Soul” is both a dedication to the hope of true love and a sobering reminder of eternal impact of the small moments in our lives.

J. Daniel Batt has written a powerful and stirring story that moves seamlessly been poetic moments of reflection and the harrowing pain left by words unsaid and actions never taken.