Mary Thorson
@marythor.bsky.social
“Casadastraphobia” in Best American Mystery & Suspense, 2025. “Book of Ruth” in Best American Mystery & Suspense, 2024. Writer, creeper, human. She/her. rep’d by Lori Galvin at Aevitas Creative. Aggressive UWM Stan. Panther Pride.
My dad with my second Best American Mystery and Suspense story. He’s the biggest fan of my life and I’m incredibly lucky.
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My dad with my second Best American Mystery and Suspense story. He’s the biggest fan of my life and I’m incredibly lucky.
Something coming at y’all in the next few months! This is the story LOOSELY based on the Keddie Cabin Murders. Thank you @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving her a home!
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Something coming at y’all in the next few months! This is the story LOOSELY based on the Keddie Cabin Murders. Thank you @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving her a home!
Milwaukee event coming up with author Jess Hagemann! Mark your calendars mpl.libnet.info/event/14801086
October 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Milwaukee event coming up with author Jess Hagemann! Mark your calendars mpl.libnet.info/event/14801086
Get yourself an editor who hypes you up mid-edits. I cannot tell you enough how amazing @rhppress.bsky.social is. They are good people doing good work and I am so lucky to be working with them.
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Get yourself an editor who hypes you up mid-edits. I cannot tell you enough how amazing @rhppress.bsky.social is. They are good people doing good work and I am so lucky to be working with them.
My stack had a nice little week
October 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My stack had a nice little week
It came and I’m so lucky and grateful. Thank you to all the folks involved.
September 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It came and I’m so lucky and grateful. Thank you to all the folks involved.
Spent the last moments of my summer writing a short story (by hand, which is odd for me) loosely based on the Keddie Cabin Murders. Time well spent.
August 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Spent the last moments of my summer writing a short story (by hand, which is odd for me) loosely based on the Keddie Cabin Murders. Time well spent.
Excuse me what is this I found and tried to steal @claymcleod.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Excuse me what is this I found and tried to steal @claymcleod.bsky.social
Finished a day ahead of schedule! Now to read and edit and beg others to read and then edit some more.
June 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Finished a day ahead of schedule! Now to read and edit and beg others to read and then edit some more.
This point in my process
June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This point in my process
Okay, this is one of the posts to announce how hard I’m going to work instead of actually working, but I don’t care. Crossed 50K on my revision. I need 50 more pages and did 5 today. Let’s keep it moving.
May 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Okay, this is one of the posts to announce how hard I’m going to work instead of actually working, but I don’t care. Crossed 50K on my revision. I need 50 more pages and did 5 today. Let’s keep it moving.
From @booksbeyondwords.bsky.social for our boy.
May 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
From @booksbeyondwords.bsky.social for our boy.
Who me? In my own local public library?
May 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Who me? In my own local public library?
So excited to have a short in the upcoming @rhppress.bsky.social On Fire and Under Water anthology edited by the insanely talented @curtisippolito.bsky.social. A sneak peek at what I wrote about…
May 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
So excited to have a short in the upcoming @rhppress.bsky.social On Fire and Under Water anthology edited by the insanely talented @curtisippolito.bsky.social. A sneak peek at what I wrote about…
Also, incredibly stoked to be in the pages among some of the best crime boys and friends @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social & @robdsmith.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Also, incredibly stoked to be in the pages among some of the best crime boys and friends @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social & @robdsmith.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to say that, for the second year in a row (daaaaang), I’ll have a story in Best American Mystery & Suspense. Thank you @stephcha.bsky.social & @donwinslow.bsky.social for selecting Casadastraphobia! And as always grateful for @rhppress.bsky.social for giving her a home.
April 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m thrilled to say that, for the second year in a row (daaaaang), I’ll have a story in Best American Mystery & Suspense. Thank you @stephcha.bsky.social & @donwinslow.bsky.social for selecting Casadastraphobia! And as always grateful for @rhppress.bsky.social for giving her a home.
Today is simply the biggest day of my writing life. I’m thrilled and stunned and proud and terrified. Thank you thank you @rhppress.bsky.social and @lorigalvin.bsky.social for making my dreams come true.
April 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today is simply the biggest day of my writing life. I’m thrilled and stunned and proud and terrified. Thank you thank you @rhppress.bsky.social and @lorigalvin.bsky.social for making my dreams come true.
This is a super considerate lit mag move, @fracturedlit.bsky.social (I did already submit another draft, but this is cool)
April 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is a super considerate lit mag move, @fracturedlit.bsky.social (I did already submit another draft, but this is cool)
If you’re voting in the Derringers, please consider my flash piece, Lockerbie, 1988, originally published by @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If you’re voting in the Derringers, please consider my flash piece, Lockerbie, 1988, originally published by @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
My favorite story from last year is a Derringer finalist!! Thank you to the Short Mystery Fiction Society and @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social! And also @vondoviak.bsky.social for sending it in! shortmystery.blogspot.com/2025/04/smfs...
April 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My favorite story from last year is a Derringer finalist!! Thank you to the Short Mystery Fiction Society and @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social! And also @vondoviak.bsky.social for sending it in! shortmystery.blogspot.com/2025/04/smfs...
Super excited for y’all to see another flash story about a plane crash. And it’s totally fine that I’m flying in two weeks. #thoughtsandprayers! So thankful to Ghost Parachute for giving her a home.
March 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Super excited for y’all to see another flash story about a plane crash. And it’s totally fine that I’m flying in two weeks. #thoughtsandprayers! So thankful to Ghost Parachute for giving her a home.
37 minutes in heaven! Which is wearing a full sweatsuit and napping.
March 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
37 minutes in heaven! Which is wearing a full sweatsuit and napping.
Every time I look at this draft, I think about the Mighty Ducks
March 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Every time I look at this draft, I think about the Mighty Ducks