It has been an eventful couple of weeks. I didn’t have a chance to cheer about the final ShadowBytes podcast episode being released. With that, the eight episode series is done. I wrote and recorded each of the ShadowBytes episodes after Damien from The Violent Life Shadowrun podcast asked if I would like to work with him. Three of the episodes were excerpts from my Shadowrun novella, DocWagon 19. The other five episodes were a loosely linked story that told the origin and motivation of a shadowrunner who’d once been a happy corporate wage slave.
- ShadowBytes 01 – Worthy
- ShadowBytes 02 – Chrome Holly (DocWagon 19 excerpt)
- ShadowBytes 03 – Non-Compliant
- ShadowBytes 04 – Hey Jude (DocWagon 19 excerpt)
- ShadowBytes 05 – Hunger and the Hand That Feeds It
- ShadowBytes 06 – Miyazaki (DocWagon 19 excerpt)
- ShadowBytes 07 – Literal Milk Run
- ShadowBytes 08 – The Gift of Callousness
There are a couple of little things in each episode that I really like. The short format of the stories leans itself to hint at a much greater world without spelling it out. In one episode, I foreshadow the end. In another, I get to use a character who starred in a Shadowrun story called, “Between a Corp and a Hard Place.” In another episode, I hint at the origin story of another shadowrunner… assuming she survives long enough to run the shadows. In still another, I play with the trope of an easy run. In the final episode, a take an emo trope and turn it on its head. It’s a fun series.
If you are interested in other podcasts by me, I have Five Minute Stories. All 26 episodes are online and free. Each one is a standalone modern day supernatural flash fiction piece. I am also voice talent in an urban fantasy podcast called the Dire Multiverse. I voice a couple of different characters.
I do like podcasting. I’d like to do more of it. I’m just not sure what. Yet.
