Darkstar (Kindle Single)

Haunted by a diabolical voice, Sailor is a homeless Irish teenager who seeks to reunite with the soulmate he hasn't seen since boyhood, as a cosmic event threatens to extinguish life on Earth. Darkstar is a pre-apocalyptic tale of love set in the most dire and desperate of realities. Seattle's The Stranger reviewed, "Darkstar is a Cormac McCarthy-esque literary crime thriller. The ambiguity will leave genre traditionalists pouting, but it's an ambitious debut for the Singles' fiction line... Howard's novella is one of the best Single outings." This story leads the collection, Prince of the World (7 Stories Press, 2013), which Publishers Weekly reports, "etches a disturbing, unsettling vision, told with a brave, unflinching perspective..."