Kyle E. Miller
@templeoftheword
Writer. Appeared in @clarkesworld, @propaguleco, @ErgotPress, among others.
“You’re an animal. We’re all animals. Even you, son.” four wannabe eagle scouts and a self-hating gay dad take their adolescent emotions to the woods to go camping. you'll never guess what's going to happen but you can bet it's not good.
Next: “Hilarity,” in @bruisermag that house of weird. I have very little memory of writing this; I don’t know what that implies. bruisermag.com/miller_hilarity
In the weeks leading up to the release of my debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, I’m going to share some of my best work, starting with “The Interquaal,” from the lovely ergot. ergot.press/authors/Kyle_E…
In the weeks leading up to the release of my debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, I’m going to share some of my best work, starting with “The Interquaal,” from the lovely ergot. ergot.press/authors/Kyle_E…
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Four aspiring eagle scouts, a chaperone deep in his own devolution, and a Lake Michigan worth of repressed emotion walk in to the forest... what could go wrong?
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Our crowdfunding campaign for 2025 is ongoing! 2 issues of dark fantasy and sword and sorcery literature! 40,000+ words of fiction, illuminated and illustrated interiors. If you like Dark Souls, Gene Wolfe, and Robert E. Howard, you'll like our magazine: backerkit.com/c/projects/old…
Borges, in an interview at age 80: “I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms. Should we ever speak of ‘obligatory pleasure’? … I have always advised my students: If a book bores you, leave it; don’t read it because it is famous, [+]
Sold out within days of opening pre-orders, Painted Rocks by Parker Wilson is a runaway hit. More books have been ordered, more eBooks are waiting. Take to the woods with four scouts and their leader; adolescent maturity, a poorly held self hatred, and nowhere to go.
TOMORROW!!!
Four prospective eagle scouts set off into the woods armed only with repressed homosexuality, an inadequate chaperone, and the emotional maturity of four teenaged boys. What could go wrong?
For fans of Gene Wolfe, John Crowley, Whitehead, and Chuang Tzu.
My debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, will be published by @nydumbo this summer. A hybrid speculative fiction novel about evolution, knowledge, time, inheritance, and three friends on a quest. More details soon.
My debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, will be published by @nydumbo this summer. A hybrid speculative fiction novel about evolution, knowledge, time, inheritance, and three friends on a quest. More details soon.
Insane elegiac production art paintings for Tarkovsky's "Solaris" by Mikhail Romadin.
Lost my copy of The Wandering Unicorn in the fire, lovely book. Borges, in the forward of my edition, offers a concise yet unassailable defense of fantasy.
2025 will be Bomarzo Summer
Even with covers that are purposefully somewhat garish and showy, our modern covers are not as good as the old ‘pulp’ covers for fantasy or science fiction. I don’t know why it’s worse, but it is, I don’t think it’s just nostalgia making me think this. Just look at this
The modern American bookstore is a menagerie of horrors, visually speaking. The only thing one can say in mitigation is that often the covers are as tawdry as the contents, so they provide fair warning
Hard to Be a God (2013) dir. Aleksey German
A “cat contract” 納貓兒契式 listing the cat's obligations: patrolling tirelessly, catching mice, leaving the numnums alone. From 銜蟬小錄 Xianchan xiaolu
Many people don't know that Chinese in the Song Dynasty 1000 years ago would really sign a contract with cats before hire them, in which people promise to provide food and accommodation while cats guarantee to fulfill their duty of catching mice.🐱