SHORT STORY COLLECTION

THE SUBCONSCIOUS MUTINY AND OTHER STORIES

A Collection of Short Fiction by Thaïs Miller

Brown Paper Publishing

2009

In her first collection of short fiction, Thaïs Miller unflinchingly navigates the intricate nuances and subjective realities of the traumatized female psyche. The eight stories presented range in subject from the aftermath of fringe-religion indoctrination to the misdirected vengeance of spurned affection to the clambering need to define with obsessive precision one’s niche in a society concerned with only the most superficial aspects of identity.

Available on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Subconscious-Mutiny-other-stories/dp/1441429581/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273598929&sr=8-2#noop

 

NOVEL

OUR MACHINERY

A Novel by Thaïs Miller

Brown Paper Publishing

2008

In Thais Miller’s dark fable of apathy, self destruction, and redemption a machine is invented that converts the flesh of living human beings into a source of energy capable of powering the world. First used as a means of capital punishment, the machine is soon put to use on ‘volunteers’: the terminally ill, the disenfranchised, the starving and helpless, those who feel they could do better for the ones they love by trading their flesh for monetary compensation. And as rumors spread that death by the machine produces a euphoria beyond imagination, people begin willfully sacrificing themselves to it by the hundreds of thousands. OUR MACHINERY is the story of one woman’s attempts to stop the spread of the machine, to end the swell of suicide in the name of survival, and to find solace in a world descending more and more into amorality, hopelessness, and chaos.

Our Machinery was originally published in three installments in Predicate (Brown Paper Publishing’s online and print literary journal). In 2008, Our Machinery was required reading in New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study “Writing on Wealth and Power” undergraduate course and recommended reading in American University’s “Death Penalty” honors undergraduate course.

Available on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Our-Machinery-Thais-Miller/dp/1438211260/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273598264&sr=8-1#noop

 

INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORIES 

• “Delusion Land,” a short story featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books imprint PubLab, July 2023.
  • Available through the PubLab website: https://larbpublab.org/2023/07/21/delusion-land/

 

• “The Ghostwriter,” a short story featured in Nautilus, February 2023.
  • Available through the Nautilus website: https://nautil.us/the-ghostwriter-262510/

 

• “Passing,” winner for Setting in the 2018 CRAFT Elements Contest. The story was also a finalist for Dialogue.
  • Available through the CRAFT website: https://www.craftliterary.com/2019/01/18/passing-thais-miller/#

 

• “Late Arrivals,” a short story featured in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, November 2018.
  • Available for purchase through the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library website: https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/literary-journal/

 

• “The Deep Fat Fryer Incident of February 2012,” a short story finalist in The Furious Gazelle‘s February 2017 Contest.
  • Available through The Furious Gazelle website: http://thefuriousgazelle.com/2017/02/16/thais-miller-february/

 

• “A Classic Rock Funeral Dirge,” a short story featured in Vol. 1 Brooklyn Sunday Stories, December 2016.
  • Available through the Vol.  1 Brooklyn website: http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2016/12/11/sunday-stories-a-classic-rock-funeral-dirge/

 

• “Der Wechselbalg in Tribeca,” a short story, won The Furious Gazelle‘s 2016 Halloween Contest, October 2016.
  • Available through The Furious Gazelle website: http://thefuriousgazelle.com/2016/10/31/thais-miller/

 

• “Gates, Canals, and Veins,” a short story featured in The Tishman Review, Issue 2.3, July 2016.
  • Available through The Tishman Review website: http://www.thetishmanreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TTRJULY2016.compressed-2.pdf

 

• “Magnets,” a short story featured in Nautilus, Issue No. 10: Mergers & Acquisitions, February 2014.
  • Available through the Nautilus website: http://nautil.us/issue/10/mergers–acquisitions/magnets

 

• “Extraction,” a short story featured in The Ofi Press Magazine, Issue No. 33, December 2013.
  • Available through The Ofi Press Magazine website: http://theofipress.webs.com/millerthais.htm

 

• “The King’s Wings: A Contemporary Fairy Tale for New York City,” a short story featured in Vol. 1 Brooklyn Sunday Stories, November 2012.
  • Available through the Vol.  1 Brooklyn website: http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2012/11/04/sunday-stories-the-kings-wings/

 

• “Descent,” flash fiction featured in HOOT Online, Issue No. 13, October 2012.
  • Available with an audio recording and a drawing by María Cristina Alvarez on the literary magazine’s website: http://www.hootreview.com/onlineissue13/

 

• “Darwin’s Point,” a short story written with Dr. Robert Johnson, featured in the collection Lethal Rejection: Stories on Crime and Punishment, published by Carolina Academic Press, 2009.
  • Available for purchase at:http://www.amazon.com/Lethal-Rejection-Stories-Crime-Punishment/dp/1594606935#_
  • “Darwin’s Point” is also featured in Admit2: An Online Magazine for Collaborative Writing, Issue No. 24, July 2008. Available through: http://www.admit2.net/24.htm

 

• “Carpool Buddy,” a short story featured in Bleak House Review, Issue 1, March 2008.
  • Available through the Bleak House Publishing website:http://www.bleakhousepublishing.com/downloads/bhr_1.html