THE BOOKS
The Reaper's Harvest
He's taken many names over the long centuries, but his mission has never changed...
Cronus, the keeper of the harvest, ushers the living into the afterlife. His presence has been felt at every major global disaster, from Pompei to New Orleans.
Now, he leads a peaceful life in Eastern Oregon, where the realities of his work have brought him uncomfortably close to his new neighbors.
The Reaper's Harvest, a novel of supernatural suspense, is the story of William Lowell and his quest to save his family. It's the story of a good man matching wits with death himself, and it poses an eternal question about what it means to be human: How far would you go to save the ones you love?
A thriller with elements of mythology, The Reaper's Harvest covers similar thematic territory as Stephen King's Duma Key and the film Meet Joe Black. It is a story of temptation in the face of tragedy, the insistence of love, and the hazard of sacrifice--all within the space of one season's harvest.
The Silver Coast and Other Stories
Retribution and reunion. Mutation and madness. Famine and hunger and war and disease.
These tales investigate the darkest margins of human curiosity.
What really happened in Muhammad Ali’s last fight?
Does Florida’s skunk ape exist? If so, where did it come from?
What lurks beneath that slipcover on the side of that old house at the end of the street?
Go ahead—take a peek! Satisfy your curiosity, and take a long walk down the rocky sands of the Silver Coast…
"The Silver Coast and Other Stories had me longing for my favorite college writing classes, where unbridled creativity was encouraged and transforming this creativity into words was required. It is often so hard to find the courage and motivation to sit down and write, but stories like the ones in The Silver Coast get the imagination rolling and the words flowing."
~ Meaghan McKeron, Baltimore Reads
These Strange Worlds
Fourteen Dark Tales
The lone survivor of a worldwide flu epidemic grows strangely attached to her parasitic partner…
A malevolent London rental has a voracious appetite for rock stars, and it’s building one hell of a band…
A wealthy oil trader is offered a glimpse into another dimension, but is the cost more than he can possibly bear?
From Satanic salesmen to zombie Ponzi schemes; from murdering murals to alien invasions, and other curious encounters along the way, These Strange Worlds takes readers on fourteen excursions into the realm of the uncanny. A mixture of new and previously published short stories, Powell’s first collection embodies the spectrum of imaginative possibility that is the hallmark of compelling speculative fiction.
Survival
The year is 2209, and the hour has grown late for the human race.
Famine and disease have drastically compounded the misery of a warming planet.
With many billions scrambling after the Earth’s depleted resources, a multinational agency known as The Authority has instituted a population-control policy known simply as Labor.
The Authority regulates every aspect of the birthing process, from ensuring that male subjects abstain from alcohol and prescription drugs to delivering each man a quota of sleepless nights.
Such a test stands before Bryan Norton, whose wife’s due date has just fallen into testing range. Very soon, they will experience the joy of the birth of their son.
Norton has endured the year-long process of qualifying for Labor. He has sacrificed his health and comfort for the chance to become a father.
But the greatest challenge lies ahead, and the chances are slim that he’ll ever hold his son in his arms.
Daniel Powell’s dystopian novelette poses an enduring human question: How far would you go to be with your family?
Drawing upon influences as diverse as Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” and Stephen King’s The Running Man, “Survival” is a chilling narrative on the nature of parenthood in turbulent times.