Mary Thorson
@marythor.bsky.social
A Woman’s Guide to True Crime available: https://boswellbooks.com/book/9798993883656 She/her. rep’d by Lori Galvin at Aevitas Creative. Aggressive UWM Stan. Panther Pride.
I post for the people who grew up wailing “ahhhh! ahhhh!” in perfect time with the lady slumped backward over a gravestone in the Masterpiece: Mystery! opening credits and still do it every single time.
Edward Gorey's Masterpiece Theater Animation
Alt: Edward Gorey's Masterpiece Theater Animation, first shot is the fancy 1920s people dancing and then we quick cut to the lady with the amazing batwing hat and the magic eye fan holding a shushing finger to her lips.
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Read "Ship in a Bottle" written by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Dahlia peers out to the horizon where a tiny sailboat hovers." tinyurl.com/372jbdrn
Ship in a Bottle — Ghost Parachute
Dahlia peers out to the horizon where a tiny sailboat hovers. Her throat tightens when she imagines it speeding away and disappearing from sight, wishes she could pluck it from the sea, cradle it in h...
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“The families found what was left of their boys, one at a time. They recognized them by their clothes and their wallets and their backbones. All of them, except one.” In case y’all missed it yesterday, check out my new short short: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 66 : Mary Thorson
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“Each family woke up in their own homes, in their own beds, and understood in their own time that their own boy was missing.” Maybe I'm forgetting someone, but I doubt if anyone is writing better suspense fiction at the moment. Here is @marythor.bsky.social's latest:
Mary Thorson@marythor.bsky.social · last wk.New short story in @gonelawn.bsky.social about the Yuba County 5. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
New short story in @gonelawn.bsky.social about the Yuba County 5. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 66 : Mary Thorson
gonelawn.net
It’s here!!
Gone Lawn Journal@gonelawn.bsky.social · last wk.The buck moon is a wild one, they say, with his proud antlers, coated in soft velvet. Do not mistake those long white ears & bushy white tail! Those ears have heard all of your songs & they just make him more wild. Just wait a bit and see how cute they are. GL66 is up! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
🚨Short story acceptance alert 🚨 Town Full of Broken Tin Men, originally published in @apexmag.bsky.social's Robotic Ambitions anthology, shall be getting reprinted in MetaStellar. It deals with the themes of PTSD and what it means to return back to civilization after war!
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 3y agoMy story, "The Town Full of Broken Tin Men" will be in @apexmag.bsky.social's Robotic Ambitions anthology, which is available for preorder right now! It's about a young father-to-be in a nineteen-fifties style suburb, who starts to have some very unsettling visions of robotic men🤖
I have a short short coming out with @gonelawn.bsky.social on Wednesday and I’m stoked for y’all to read it!
Jesus literally told you not to do this shit.
This is incredible
Chelsea Stickle@chelseastickle.bsky.social · 3w agoToday I've got a new flash in @reckonreview.bsky.social about disappearing fireflies and family. Thank you to the editors for publishing it. This story saw many drafts over the years, but I'm glad this is the one out there. reckonreview.com/life-cycle-o...
I’ve just been writing flash pieces based on National Park After Dark episodes. I trust my process.
this is my first time ever being selected for the Wigleaf Top 50! so thrilled & delighted. thank you to @sudhab.bsky.social, Scott Garson + the @wigleaf.bsky.social team, @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, & @havehashad.com 💀 🪦 🤍
You would be hard pressed to find someone who writes about San Diego, or place in general, better than @curtisippolito.bsky.social
DoSomeDamage@dosomedamage.bsky.social · 2mo agoopen.substack.com/pub/dosomeda...
Visited the folks over at St. Camillus and it was awesome! I got so many more stories about unknown Milwaukee murders afterwards
super stoked to share that my story, “Used To Be Some Kind of Badass,” was named to the 2026 Best American Mystery and Suspense Distinguished list, along with some astoundingly talented folks. many thanks to Cold Caller Magazine for publishing my tale of brothers, revenge and unfinished business.
Used to Be Some Kind of Badass
Fiction by Andy Boyle
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Where should I send a weird flash piece about a kid who finds a body?
First draft done. Onto revising and petting this annoyed dog.
Almost done with the first draft of this short experiment. 🌕
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Jamey Gallagher@jameygallagher.bsky.social · 2mo agoGREAT collections: COYOTE GIRL, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, ALL DAUGHTERS ARE AWESOME EVERYWHERE, @demisty.bsky.social, @univnebpress.bsky.social , MAGDALENA IS BRIGHTER THAN YOU THINK, Grace Spulak, @autumnhouse.org, BODOCK, Robert Busby, @hubcitypress.bsky.social
"Two Poems" by Ani King “lips stained pink or red or purple or black / let them be tender as overripe fruit / let them be girls / bursting sweetness / new names plucked from field guides to flowers…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/king-...
two poems — Blood+Honey
by Ani King “lips stained pink or red or purple or black / let them be tender as overripe fruit / let them be girls / bursting sweetness / new names plucked from field guides to ...
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This was so fun, and @alexkenna.bsky.social is so cool
Alex Kenna@alexkenna.bsky.social · 3mo agoI had a great time interviewing crime fiction author @marythor.bsky.social about her new short story collection, A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME. Check out our conversation and then give her excellent book a read! Listen: on.soundcloud.com/zKeKC8qMTKym...
