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@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social

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Author, horror nerd, queer mom. She/her. ASK A QUEER CHICK (Plume, 2016), THE Z WORD (Quirk, 2024), THIS IS MY BODY (Quirk, 2025). https://www.lindsaykingmiller.com/

A spread of books and zines, including is(ness) by Crisosto Apache, Boy King: A Reflection On and Reimagining Of the Zelda Universe, Ultimate Camp: King of Scream, Lilacs! A Fanzine, Conversation Starters for You and Your Inner Demons, and One Sentence Reviews of Books I've Read Recently

Sign that says "VICTIM RESTROOM" with a featureless stick figure lying in a pool of blood

Michelle Yeoh in Wicked. She has a silver updo and a sparkly dark green dress and looks evil and gorgeous.

prokopetz
May 11

You are an unreliable narrator because your coping mechanisms for your deep-seated trauma forbid you from acknowledging the reality of the situation. I am an unreliable narrator because I sincerely have no idea what the fuck is going on.

Gif of Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove saying "He's still alive?" in shock and dismay

Gif of Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove saying "He's still alive?" in shock and dismay

The actor Francis Capra (best known for playing Eli "Weevil" Navarro on Veronica Mars) with some kind of spiky black boy band hair. He is, I regret to say, absolutely not pulling it off.

Selfie of me, a white woman with a shaved head and glasses, wearing a black T-shirt with a picture of Ghostface from Scream and the words "NO YOU HANG UP" in pink

Selfie of me, a white woman with a shaved head and glasses, smiling.

Lindsay King-Miller, a white woman with short brown hair and glasses, holding a copy of her novel THE Z WORD and smiling. The book cover is black, pink, turquoise, and orange, with the title in white. Behind her is a tower of black, pink, turquoise, and orange balloons.

Album cover: the words "SLEATER-KINNEY / NO CITIES TO LOVE" in small capital letters above a bouquet of wilting flowers

An orange and white cat and a gray cat snuggled up next to each other in a dark blue cat tree. They both look very serious and thoughtful even though they're actually himbos

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren in one of the Conjuring movies, probably the first one, they look young

Sign stuck on a light pole reads:
CHEATING
FIANCÉ
YARD SALE
COME SUPPORT MY MOVE OUT!
[address is blacked out]
FRIDAY APRIL 3
SATURDAY APRIL 4
8-3
EVERYTHING MUST GO

Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"

Christian Bale as Frankenstein's monster, looking up at an overhead camera while dancing with Jessie Buckley in THE BRIDE!

Kirby, a pink blob who may or may not be classifiable as a cephalopod

Guillotine

Lyrics from "Yer So Bad" by Tom Petty

[Verse 2]
My sister's ex-husband can't get no lovin'
Walks around dog-face and hurt
Now he's got nothin', head in the oven
I can't decide which is worse

[Chorus]
But not me baby, I've got you to save me
Oh, yer so bad, best thing I ever had
In a world gone mad, yer so bad

Ray Smuckles from Achewood saying "Daaamn! That answer could use some work!"

Hardcover copy of HERCULINE by Grace Byron on a wood table. The book cover is neon green and black and depicts the upper half of a head/face with devil horns, the bottom of the face obscured by green flames. It's a completely bitchin cover.

My forearm with a fresh tattoo wrapped in Saran wrap. It's an eel skull with a banner above and below that says "MEMENTO MORAY."

Tweet from "noknowshame"
Sept 22, 2023
my favorite thing about the mystery genre is that we all accept the concept of "world famous detective" without hesitation even though that is absolutely not a real category of celebrity

A picture of THIS IS MY BODY by Lindsay King-Miller, a trade paperback with a dark red cover, on a dark red background. Below it in white text are the words: "King-Miller's finest work to date." -New York Times

Picture of THIS IS MY BODY by Lindsay King-Miller, a paperback book with a dark red cover, on a dark red background. Below the book, in white text, are the words "King-Miller's finest work to date." -New York Times

The Onion headline:
Point/Counterpoint
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

Pope Leo holding a mic in both hands, eyes closed, like he's really singing his heart out

A perfect orange and white cat resting his head on a beautiful dark gray cat, both lying on a white blanket with a blue and gray pattern

A free virtual class with Western's low-residency Graduate Program in Creative Writing
CRYING, SCREAMING, THROWING UP
On Grief & Horror
With Genre Fiction Faculty Lindsay King-Miller
With its rich vocabulary of extreme circumstances and tropes, the horror genre is well suited to express a range of strong emotions: not just fear, but love, rage, and especially sorrow. In this class, we'll draw on examples from literature and film to discuss the function of grief in a horror writer's toolbox and how writing about loss can create tension and fear.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 5-6 PM MT

WRISTS ARE
for GIRLS.
I'M SLITTING MY THROAT.

AND NONE
for GRETCHEN WEINERS

THE POISON
for KUZCO

Selfie of me, a white woman with short brown hair, wearing black sunglasses and leaning back on a tree trunk

Bigfoot sculpture made of pieces of pumpkin and orange lights, with bright lights for eyes

A tube of Sensodyne toothpaste and a tube of Vanicream face lotion. They are the same size and shape with an almost identical color palette, such that a tired or distracted person could easily mix them up and slather her face in toothpaste.

Pinhead from Hellraiser

Screenshot of my bsky timeline:
CNBC article: "To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response."
User cedar subaru lesbian: "I wanna be spitroasted already"

My hand, with a weird combination friction burn/blister on the middle finger

A beautiful orange and white cat lying on a purple blanket with his eyes almost closed

An orange cat with white patches, curled up in a ball with a paw over his face, on a dark blue blanket

Horrible AI slop graphic of signs of decay in caskets, with labels like "sunkel gravet in tes casket" which do not meaningfully correspond to the images of coffins, graves, and anatomically nonsensical skeletons accompanying them.

Absolutely horrible AI slop diagram of decomposition in various environments, or as it's labeled at the top left, "Differenvironments casket Decomptation." Nothing about it makes sense or contains usable information, but it does have a thermometer with the caption "Microrgosials decompsuckly."

Me with my mouth wide open in surprise and amazement

Red pig on a carousel. Its mouth is open with its tongue sticking out, and its eyes are unsettlingly human.

Cursed looking goat on a carousel. Behind it is a door that says ORGAN WAGON NO. 69 AUTHORIZED STAFF ONLY

Cardboard box full of trade paperback copies of THIS IS MY BODY by Lindsay King-Miller

Matthew Lillard as Stu and Skeet Ulrich as Billy in SCREAM. They are smiling and leaning against each other, Stu's front to Billy's back, in a way that defies heterosexual explanation. Billy has fake blood on his face and neck.

Email heading: "Celebrate Independence Day with DocHub."

Colored pencil drawing of a korok with an angry facial expression. It's holding a knife. It says "You just want to go home? Well, I just wanted to reach my friend. I guess neither of us gets what we want."

Pencil drawing of Samus Aran

cover of THE Z WORD by Lindsay King-Miller

Gif of Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in CLUELESS saying "Oh, that'd be reason enough for me" to Paul Rudd's character whose name I'm spacing

White woman with short brown hair and glasses smiling under a pink neon sign that says "memento mori"

Selfie of me, a white woman with a short brown mullet and glasses

Selfie of me, a white woman with shoulder length brown hair and glasses

Me smiling on a sunny patio

Me wearing black sunglasses and a big smile, holding a baby goat in my arms. The baby goat is mostly light gray and has a colorful bandana tied around its neck.

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5,000 followers already! Thanks for supporting this account, which shines a light on an underground literature that would otherwise stay hidden. (I'm reaching out to some authors to put together an anthology—know any crazy publishers? Send them my way!)