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Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

MARY THORSON ON THE WRITER'S DOSSIER: Listen to @marythor.bsky.social talk with @jeffcircle.bsky.social about her story collection A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME, available now from RHP Press. Listen to the show here: bit.ly/4rt9gwl and order your the book here: bit.ly/4r1u8KU

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I love this dude and I love his work, snatch this up

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@kellyekell.bsky.social what do you think of 5 of wands when working on some revisions? I basically know what I need to do, but it’s all about clashing egos. Any insight would be so appreciated.

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The title and cover on this are 🔥🔥🔥

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of my favorite lit magazines

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My short story, “Casadastraphobia,” was featured in Good Trouble! This was super kind of @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social tommydean.substack.com/p/writing-th...

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Writing the epic in Short Story Form

Using a Prologue to add backstory

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Creative success and praise. You hear that everyone?

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I just finished The Bombing of Pan Am 103 on Netflix. It’s devastating and so well done. Highly recommend.

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Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY: Our conversation with @marythor.bsky.social, author of A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME, available now: bit.ly/4r1u8KU Listen to the podcast here: bit.ly/4bazv4n Patreon subscriptions start at $5/month!

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Learned the heart pattern, everything has changed for me

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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.

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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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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“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...

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Gone Lawn 66 : Mary Thorson

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Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“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:

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Paul J. Garth @pauljgarth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

God damn.

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New short story in @gonelawn.bsky.social about the Yuba County 5. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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Gone Lawn 66 : Mary Thorson

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🚨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!

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have a short short coming out with @gonelawn.bsky.social on Wednesday and I’m stoked for y’all to read it!

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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Jesus literally told you not to do this shit.

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’ve just been writing flash pieces based on National Park After Dark episodes. I trust my process.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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 💀 🪦 🤍

The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions

Series Editor: Sudha Balagopal — "Writers produced an astonishing treasure trove of stories this year..."

Selecting Editor: Andrew Porter — "Occasions such as this always feel like a gift to me..."

Anna Vangala Jones story “Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic” from HAD was selected

At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is the pub date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones.
Below that is the text of the story: “—we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.”

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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Coming soooooooon….

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

You would be hard pressed to find someone who writes about San Diego, or place in general, better than @curtisippolito.bsky.social

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I once saw a dead rat on the sidewalk and wrote the thing in my head on the walk home. The form definitely lets me be my weirdest self

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Visited the folks over at St. Camillus and it was awesome! I got so many more stories about unknown Milwaukee murders afterwards

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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.

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Used to Be Some Kind of Badass

Fiction by Andy Boyle

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Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Where should I send a weird flash piece about a kid who finds a body?

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