LATEST RELEASE
Oracle of Unreason
Besimeni Press
November 4, 2024
A collection of 101 haiku and senryu poems
Classically structured, nature-oriented compositions evolve into passionate verse free from the confines of tradition as the futility of language, vagaries of meaning-making and solace found in nonsense are explored.
Come down from the mountains of logic and sanity. In the valley, a seat of lucid madness waits for a new oracle of unreason. It waits for you.
BOOKS
The Blizzard and The Sieve
All Things That Matter Press
Coming 2025
Casimir Marime is a failed carpenter’s apprentice whose only refuge from shame is a sacred grove cultivated by rumor. When the capital’s army invades his backwater village to find it, the tenderhearted boy is ensnared and, in an act of mercy, appointed as his home’s first executioner. To escape the ritual of redemptive violence, Casimir navigates a moral labyrinth fashioned by Konrad Soln, a disgraced former executioner from a dynasty of brutal fathers and sons, Konrad’s rebellious niece Marzena and a host of mercurial beings with their own veiled machinations.
Those Who Are Invited In
Solstice Publishing
November 16, 2022
Longtime partners Bernard Yates and Sofia Wren are traveling to Besimeni, a quiet fort town on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to visit her grandparents. Meeting them for the first time, Bernard seeks their permission to propose to Sofia. The Wrens may invite him into the family but not before they test his mettle with family secrets, sacrifices and increasingly absurd demands.
Internal Exile
All Things That Matter Press
October 15, 2023
On the eve of her first family reunion, friendless nine-year-old Lucy Wren is once again tormented by sleep-paralysis and three shadowy figures. However, tonight there is a fourth and things are getting worse. Intent on keeping her awake during their flight, Lucy’s razor-witted mother trades her Halloween candy in exchange for a story about their 17th-century ancestor, Merrill O’Sullivan who suffered a similar affliction in a failed New World colony. Will his harrowing account of the unseen world convince Lucy to reconcile her nature with her longing or leave her lost in the darkness?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Richardson does not like to write about himself in the third person, so he won’t do that here.
I love horror with heart, one you can hold in your hands and show to your loved ones.
When I’m away from my desk, I’m watching European football, building folk instruments or chasing my border collie.
Born a stone’s throw from the Chesapeake, I now reside in the Midwest.
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