Michael Thorn lives in East Texas.
What Smoke Creek Kept is a lake town that kept a drowning as an accident for twenty years. Where Did the Fireflies Go is a father in a waiting room with his daughter’s phone, pulled back to a creek in 1985 he has been calling the last summer for forty years. The Last Swing is a soldier coming home for the family’s storyteller. The work is not memoir. The county is real. The keeping is what he writes.
He is not interested in the dramatic version of those places. He is interested in the porch light, the feed store, the drive home with a phone face-down on the seat.
He is the author of the Henderson County novels.
Available now
What Smoke Creek Kept
Pre-order · October 20
Where Did the Fireflies Go
Coming soon
The Last Swing