Mae Murray
@maeisafraid.bsky.social
“Prose like rusted barbed wire.” | British Fantasy Award Finalist, THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS | Brave New Weird Award Winner | I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU | maemurray.com
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And when I say “like me,” I mean POOR people. People who grew up dirt poor, and have never fully been able to fight their way out of the trappings of poverty. Yet still they write.
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
And when I say “like me,” I mean POOR people. People who grew up dirt poor, and have never fully been able to fight their way out of the trappings of poverty. Yet still they write.
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I am mentoring kids who are the first person to bring a book into their home, kids with the ability to imagine singing glass on alien worlds, but who can’t ever imagine getting published because being on the bruised economic margins is exclusion, is erasure. It makes me so damn angry and sad.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I am mentoring kids who are the first person to bring a book into their home, kids with the ability to imagine singing glass on alien worlds, but who can’t ever imagine getting published because being on the bruised economic margins is exclusion, is erasure. It makes me so damn angry and sad.
A lot of writers who grew up middle class think they grew up poor because their family could only afford one vacation a year. My sweet summer child.
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A lot of writers who grew up middle class think they grew up poor because their family could only afford one vacation a year. My sweet summer child.
And when I say “like me,” I mean POOR people. People who grew up dirt poor, and have never fully been able to fight their way out of the trappings of poverty. Yet still they write.
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
And when I say “like me,” I mean POOR people. People who grew up dirt poor, and have never fully been able to fight their way out of the trappings of poverty. Yet still they write.
It’s also not true, at least one straight character lives! I’m not a monster!
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It’s also not true, at least one straight character lives! I’m not a monster!
Incredible article. ♥️
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Incredible article. ♥️
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Get you some Southern-fried Lynchian vibes, horror nerds!
I'm Sorry If I Scared You by Mae Murray is an incredible work of Southern queer horror. It's weird, it's gross, it's gay, and it's all too relevant
Also I swear that cover will make perfect sense by the time you finish
Also I swear that cover will make perfect sense by the time you finish
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Get you some Southern-fried Lynchian vibes, horror nerds!
New Shakespearean insult just dropped.
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New Shakespearean insult just dropped.
She was very obviously unwell, but because her symptoms manifested as loud, outspoken, masculine—because she was gay and painted as a corrupting force—she was given less compassion than Ted Bundy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
She was very obviously unwell, but because her symptoms manifested as loud, outspoken, masculine—because she was gay and painted as a corrupting force—she was given less compassion than Ted Bundy.