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Kyle E. Miller
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Writer. Author of The Idiot’s Garden.
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Kyle E. Miller @kymiller.bsky.social · Oct 2
My debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, is now available. Read the book @horrorsong.blog says will leave you “surprised, delighted, baffled, moved to tears.”

If you’re boycotting Amazon, I’ll have author copies for sale.

dumbopress.com/titles/38
The Idiot’s Garden: Kyle E. Miller
Independent Literary Press
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My cli-fi novel The Idiot’s Garden is an appropriate gift for everyone on your list: readers, gardeners, idiots, snails, philosophers of biology, posthumanists, queers, and cats. Here’s a look inside:
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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First short piece in a long time, at the exquisite Keep Planning
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I interview writers on my newsletter, and I love interviewing strangers! Contact me if you'd like to be interviewed sometime. Even/especially if you're relatively new to writing or publishing.

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Writing Thoughts | Ivy Grimes | Substack
Writing thoughts from me, Ivy, and from writers I interview. Click to read Writing Thoughts, by Ivy Grimes, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.

Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet [The First Letter], 1903
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Don’t be a fool - get into the Garden before you’re left at the gate.

Signed copies available.

Or: a.co/d/1p6s5jA
October 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Had a lovely chat with Ivy Grimes about The Idiot’s Garden
ivygrimes.bsky.social Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · Oct 17
"Is a snail hard or soft? Is a virus dead or alive? Are they man or woman? Am I a good person or a bad one? I realized at some point that what drew me so forcefully to hybrids is that I must be one myself."

-interview with @kymiller.bsky.social
Interview with Kyle E. Miller
nature, hybrids, secret fires
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October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The Idiot’s Garden has been out for a week. Here’s a playlist to get you in the mood, or to keep you there long after the last page is turned.

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October 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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My debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, is now available. Read the book @horrorsong.blog says will leave you “surprised, delighted, baffled, moved to tears.”

If you’re boycotting Amazon, I’ll have author copies for sale.

dumbopress.com/titles/38
The Idiot’s Garden: Kyle E. Miller
Independent Literary Press
dumbopress.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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My chimera of a novel, The Idiot’s Garden, arrives this Saturday, a book @ivygrimes.bsky.social called “incredibly strange and beautiful.” Read the prologue now for a tease:

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The Idiot’s Garden (a selection)
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September 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html

Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
The Veldt Institute | Asterism Books
### *At the Veldt Institute everyone is sick, so no one is sick.* Endless fields of grass. A sky so bright there are barely shadows. At the center of this expanse is the Veldt Institute, an austere s...
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September 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The book is coming.
September 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg

Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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‘“The worship of Pan never has died out,’ said Mortimer. ‘Other newer gods have drawn aside his votaries from time to time, but he is the Nature-God to whom all must come back at last.”’— Saki, ‘The Music on the Hill’ (1911)
Pan holding his pipes with a well-dressed woman in the background.
August 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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This week: “The Wrong Light Brought Me Out,” a queer cosmic horror piece published by @hexliterary.bsky.social. Appended: a video of me reading the piece at Ypsilanti’s Dreamland Theater some unremembered amount of time ago.

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August 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Next: illness and mystery in prosimetrum, “Mixed State” in Scrawl Place. My interest in hybridity begins to mature.

scrawlplace.com/2025/03/13/m...
August 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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“Exegesis of Canned Tuna,” in Propagule issue 4, inspired by real events.

www.propagule.co/fiction/exeg...
August 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Next: “Hilarity,” in @bruisermag.com, that house of weird. I have very little memory of writing this; I don’t know what that implies.

www.bruisermag.com/miller_hilar...
July 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Happy release day to this lovely novella
kithbooks.bsky.social kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · May 27
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.
Painted Rocks Parker Wilson cover: A greyscale photo of the author in his boy scout's uniform, hand on hip, turned slightly to the viewer's right, with the head of an alligator graffitied in black marker obscuring his head. text: "A tense and sensuous debut that shivers with subtle weirdness." - Kyle E. Miller RELEASE DAY The roar of the fire doubled in the silence that overtook camp. Its turbulence, louder from a whipping wind, drowned out the pops and cracks from steam released by the fibers of burning wood. The wind died; the fire turned its talking to a whisper. Ben held the mug with Jack Daniel’s in his hand. Rhys knew what was in it. It needed to be drunk, but it couldn’t be drunk in front of the scouts. Not now. Lewis could have kept his spirits upbeat if it weren’t for the renewed tension that seemed to wind tighter around a fire spiraling in on itself like a gear, pulling all of them inward, one slow-turning notch at a time. “Caught in that adolescent space between erotica and pain, the numb lip and the fist, we encounter a misfit troop of Scouts plunging with all their baggage into the scrub of Michigan's lakeside Upper Peninsula.” Colin Gee, founder and editor of The Gorko Gazette “Painted Rocks lays bare the rituals of masculinity that corrupt us, kill us, and keep us apart. Wilson's stunningly brutal prose is both gut-punch and heartstring-tug—the blood-suckle of mosquitos, the impact of fists on flesh, the dead weight of unrealized desire.” K. Christopherson, author of Beast Country
May 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, will be published by Dumbo Press NY this summer. A hybrid speculative fiction novel about evolution, knowledge, time, inheritance, and three friends on a quest. More details soon.
May 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I miss my books, and I miss my books.
May 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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vatican announces new pope:
the turtle pope from Elden Ring, a giant tortoise in a ruined church with a pope hat
May 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Parker Wilson’s sensuous queer novella is available for preorder now. Check it out; it’s full of delicious sentences.
kithbooks.bsky.social kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Apr 29
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?
PAINTED ROCKS by Parker Wilson cover: A greyscale photo of the author in his boy scout's uniform, hand on hip, turned slightly to the viewer's right, with the head of an alligator graffitied in black marker obscuring his head. text: you're an animal. We're all animals. Even you son. coming May 27, 2025 pre-orders are open "Painted Rocks lays bare the rituals of masculinity that corrupt us, kill us, and keep us apart." K. Christopherson Big booms caught in their ears. Smooth curves of the bluffs called the boys' own. What would it take to touch that wet rock, to swim with a wave into the hollowed-out holes near the lake's surface? The waves pushed into the burrowed-out holes in the sandstone and swished around, burrowing further, announcing the hallowed roars of crashing lake water. It was a cavernous sound, like bells buried underground, shaking up through the earth beneath their feet. Waves threw him up and they never relented, never gave him a break from losing his breath in between each one. He stroked along, keeping his head above water as best he could, and keeping as far away from the cliffs as he could without wandering into the desolate expanse of the lake. When would one of these waves just decide already if they were going to smash him into the cliffs or pull him out into the void, the ocean called a lake? Painted Rocks by Parker Wilson Lewis has lost his dog Wolfie, his best friend in the world. Wearing her tag on a chain around his neck, Lewis is headed to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore for a weekend of backpacking with three rowdy, aspiring Eagle Scouts and their Scoutmaster Ben, a struggling alcoholic. To survive the weekend, and the untethered hostility of Ben's closeted son, Rhys, Lewis will have to hold onto his memories of Wolfie as tight as he can. Coming May 27, 2025 pre-orders are open at kithbooks.com/shop
April 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Forever chemicals like PFAS cause songbirds to feed underwater: read my speculative evolution piece at Mister Mag: www.misterzine.com/issue-iii/ky...
Songbird Underwater by Kyle E. Miller — MR.
A Conversation with Dr. Holger Anghel on the Evolution of Kirtland’s Warbler
www.misterzine.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM