A graduate of the University of Arizona, Kyler writes fiction that is set in a lot of places - the coming-of-age stories boys in love would recognize on any map you can google or unfold.
The Coming-of-Age Stories
I. They say that a story grows right up out of the land just like the crops do.
II. You never know who you will meet on a bus trip, but they are going to change your life.
III. There are ways that trust can work out good in spite of all the warnings against it.
MAIN CHARACTERS BY AGE
Middle Grade 5th thru 8th grade
Young Adult 9th thru 12th grade
New Adult Past high school, up to 22 years old
The Release at Amazon
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Water Sports Fiction: ALAN’S DATE, October 2023
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Christian Relationship Fiction: HIGH SCHOOL PREACHERS, November 2022
#1 New Release in Children’s Runaway Books: MAKES FRIENDS EASY, October 2022
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Basketball Fiction: REX’S NEWS, February 2022
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Baseball & Softball Fiction eBooks: THE RIGHT SUMMER, January 2022
#1 New Release in Children's Halloween Books, HAYRIDE TONITE, April 2018
MAY 2024 PUBLISHED
Young Adult story
This is the story of high school freshman August Righteous, who will lie, cheat, and steal to get his name on the dance card of a boy he wants to meet.
Passage at Amazon A Sensible Young Man
a NEW ADULT title
A desert setting out West
This other guy gets out of line, too. He's not with our group. He's with this other group that has military haircuts, so I'm guessing they came from the Air Force base. We end up on the same side of the room because the dance must have tossed us that way.
"You're no good," he says.
I laugh. "Neither are you."
YOU ARE INVITED TO WRITE
TO Kyler Doss
#1 New Release in Children’s Runaway Books
October 2022 at Amazon
Middle Grade story set in Holland, New Orleans, and Vermont
COOS LIKES to stand on the steps of the train when it pulls out of station. At the age of 10, he isn't supposed to do that. But what his parents don't know won't hurt them.
An older boy is standing on the platform. Coos likes his hat, which is Dutch but it's also not Dutch. Therefore, the boy is interesting.
The boy turns and looks directly at Coos. It's as if the boy knows that Coos is thinking about him. Coos tries to look away but can't. The hat is blue, like Dutch skaters wear.
The boy continues to stare. He pats the left lapel pocket of his coat, then the right. In rapid order, he checks the pockets of his pants. He even takes off his hat and swirls it.
"My passport," he says to Coos. "I think I left it on the train!"
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SEPTEMBER 2022 PUBLISHED
New Adult story
A GUY comes through the door of philosophy class. Class is about to start and he takes the chair next to me.
"Am I late?" he says.
"No."
Passage at Amazon Father’s Philosophy Class
This other story about a boy named Patrick
New Adult story
This is the story of finding a boyfriend in your mind but wishing that you could find one for real. Patrick, 19, goes to classes and has a job - the problem is that he is so lonely it has pounded his feelings out to numb. One of his winter days locates him in a sandwich shop near the canal, where he notices a boy that is going to change everything for him - Patrick is 100% sure of it.
Passage at Amazon If by Chance We Meet
OTHER CHARACTERS IN OTHER STORIES
Young Adult story
Alan, 15, in Alan’s Date
ME AND Seth are going to want so much from each other that we might not be able to handle it. He starts out as this random guy who comes to rescue me in the Pacific Ocean. I don't really find out his name until later.
Middle Grade story
Kalhoun, 12, in Kalhoun
DEAR BOY in the Front Row,
You don't know me. I'm a boy in your art class.
I can't believe we started school today. Also, I can't believe what happened in class.
I saw you there and I liked you.
That wasn't supposed to happen to me in 7th grade. Not only is this supposed to be the year of boy-girl parties, but they've also got these school dances planned.
Liking you is not part of it.
New Adult story
John, 18, in Greetings From Idaho
John is happy. I like how happy he is. I like everything about him...
He gets on the bus in Jamestown, not too far from Bismarck. I've already gone through Fargo with no one to talk to. I'm probably not going to be the one to start too many conversations.
SOME STORIES THAT ARE COMING DOWN THE LINE
Young Adult story
The Bus Stop Hustle of Evil Clowns
There is talk in the parking lot about something going on. I don't know what it is.
Kids pile into half a dozen cars and I am kind of left standing there.
Bradley goes, "Come on."
I don't even know Bradley except I know who he is. He's pretty cool.
I climb in the passenger side. "What's going on?"
"It's out there."
I guess it's kind of obvious to everybody but me.
"Wow."
There's nobody else in the car. Just me and Bradley.
He goes, "I know you, right?"
"Yeah. Wayne."
Young Adult story
Punk Lite
In a civilized room, Falk doesn't look that scary. With a nice haircut he might look respectable. But that isn't the world that him and my brother want any part of.
Falk gives me a look that says something like he will cut me up real bad if he ever finds me alone on the street. No doubt he would use a bottle he had cracked the bottom half off of.
I have never had a conversation with him. Not much anyhow. Greetings in English and German. He probably threatened me in German.
If you're an anarchist, you don't need reasons.
This dinner party is pretty quiet. Me and my brother speak better German than our parents do. Falk is good in English if he wants to be. He doesn't want to be unless he's threatening somebody.
I'm waiting for one of my parents to say something like, "Perhaps your little friend would like some more lasagna."
That would be so funny if they meant Falk.
I don't know why I'm sitting next to him. My own friend is on the other side of the table next to my brother. Everything is weird.
Something tells me that me and Falk are going to have a conversation but it won't be at the dinner table. Maybe I'll threaten him with half of a bottle that I'm holding the neck of.
Then I realize I can get away with saying stuff at the table.
"So, Falk, another tough day of smashing bottles at Hauptbahnhof?"
Hauptbahnhof is the main train station. I'm not a hundred percent sure why I said it. I say stuff and I don't say stuff.
Falk shoots me a look of cut glass, like his eyes will draw blood if I'm not careful. Then I see that he is not who he thinks he is. And I don't know who he is.
New Adult story PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2023
Salt Lake City Again
I would like to tell you this is my story with a happy ending.
Only it isn't.
So I don't want to set you up for some really nice ending and then it doesn't come off that way.
It's better, then, to put the ending right up front. We can get it out of the way. It won't cause as much trouble when it comes around again at the end of events.
We said goodbye, me and Virgil.
The End.
What should have happened between us never did. And after we said goodbye, that was it. We never talked again or saw one another, or wrote or anything.
I have no idea where he ended up.
We should not have said goodbye like that. One of us should have said something like, "Hey, wait a minute."
