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Psycho Logical
A radioactive boy falls in love... A bored clerk yearns for excitement... A maniac goes to couples therapy... An assassin has a peculiar motive... Action, thriller, comedy, sci-fi, romance, horror - All genres of fiction are on display in this anthology of short stories from Mike Miller. No two tales are alike in this wildly eclectic and entertaining collection.
230 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 23, 2014
About the author
Mike Miller
22 books6 followersMike Miller lives in L.A. with his daughters and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and WGU. He has written numerous short stories, comics, screenplays and novels in all genres, such as "The Yeti," "Promoted," "Garrison Rex," and the "3VIL" series. He has also overseen the subtitling and translation for hundreds of films, video games and television shows like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "Seinfeld," "Madden," "Kung Fu Hustle," and "The Simpsons."
His favorite writers include Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, David Mitchell, Matt Groening, the Coen Brothers, Ottessa Moshfegh, Billy Wilder, Dan Simmons and Stanley Kubrick.
His favorite writers include Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, David Mitchell, Matt Groening, the Coen Brothers, Ottessa Moshfegh, Billy Wilder, Dan Simmons and Stanley Kubrick.
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November 29, 2014
I got this one for free on amazon and it was stuck in my to-read list for a while. I regret that I did not read it earlier because the short stories were so good. Some of them were funny, moving or creepy. I especially liked the story about the radioactive boy; it moved me to tears. Read it if you are ooking for a short and nice escape from everyday life.
April 5, 2016
These stories were really all over the place (in a great way.) From heavy to light, fantastic sci-fi to quiet naturalism, every entry in here is quite different from the other. There's even slight dashes of artwork and poetry to add to the eclectic fun of the collection.
If any one common theme unites the works, it's a shared sense of humor. While maybe a pair of them were completely grim and serious, the rest are all quite light and whimsical. But again, even the humor has a nice spectrum to it. Some moments are big, stupid slapstick, while others have a wry and subtle humor or maybe some dark-black comedy.
The standouts were "Randolph Rudolph the Radioactive Boy," a very bittersweet love story with a science-fiction twist, and "Taking Care of Wiggles," a fun romp about a lazy boy tasked with putting a bad dog to sleep. But I enjoyed all the stories here. Several of them were quite short, as these stories are all just long enough to make their point enjoyably without artificially dragging things along to some supposed quota on length.
It all reminds me a little of Vonnegut, who blended heartfelt stories and clever plots with altered reality and mischievous jokes.
If any one common theme unites the works, it's a shared sense of humor. While maybe a pair of them were completely grim and serious, the rest are all quite light and whimsical. But again, even the humor has a nice spectrum to it. Some moments are big, stupid slapstick, while others have a wry and subtle humor or maybe some dark-black comedy.
The standouts were "Randolph Rudolph the Radioactive Boy," a very bittersweet love story with a science-fiction twist, and "Taking Care of Wiggles," a fun romp about a lazy boy tasked with putting a bad dog to sleep. But I enjoyed all the stories here. Several of them were quite short, as these stories are all just long enough to make their point enjoyably without artificially dragging things along to some supposed quota on length.
It all reminds me a little of Vonnegut, who blended heartfelt stories and clever plots with altered reality and mischievous jokes.
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