Jimmy couldn't keep his mouth shut. He talked and talked and South Mikey listened. South Mikey talked and talked and the wrong person listened. A narrative poem with a hard edge, "Empty Days" by Jason Tower, hits the beats of old crime noire' while peaking deep into a vengeful man's heart.
J. Daniel Batt is a writer, teacher, designer, artist, creator of communities, listener, and explorer.
He serves as Creative and Editorial manager for 100 Year Starship. Jason creates visual engagement for 100 Year Starship programs and activities. He is also the managing editor of the 100YSS Symposium Proceedings.
He serves on the Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation with their Religious/Spirituality Board and the Space Settlement Board. He has previously served on the Sacramento Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Board. He was a panel speaker at the 2011 DARPA / NASA 100 Year Starship Symposium, a speaker at the 2012, 2013, and 2014 100 Year Starship Symposia, and host for the Science Fiction Stories Night at the 2013 and 2014 Symposia.
J. Daniel Batt is a writer that has penned the children’s fantasy book Keaghan in the Tales of Dreamside and the designer of many more, including The Human Race to the Future published by the Lifeboat Foundation. He served as a judge for the Lifeboat to the Stars award for science fiction literature, which was presented at the Campbell Conference in June 2013. His fiction has appeared in Bastion Science Fiction Magazine, Bewildering Stories, and in the upcoming Genius Loci anthology.