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Mary Thorson

Mary Thorson

Writer and high school English teacher in Milwaukee, author of the short story collection *A Woman's Guide to True Crime*

Sep 24, 2026

NateHOST
42:48
This
42:48
is actually great, because I... want to pick my dad always I think I said this the last time when we talked on on on Dark Waters I was like no one my dad always told me no one wants to hear you talk for longer than two minutes so I I I always try to keep them short but I have um like in this collection I have a few flash pieces or short like like under a thousand words um And I would do the German one, but I'm also afraid that my dad's going to make fun of my pronunciation as he is from Germany and I cannot.
43:23
And every time I try to speak German to him, he makes fun of me.
43:25
So I'm not going to do that.
43:29
I will read Sun Valley Mall, 1985.
43:32
Okay.
43:36
Let me tell you how I know that Christmas ornaments are more beautiful when they are breaking.

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KirstenHOST
57:50
Um, but, uh, talk to us about kind of like flipping between those two perspectives.

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