Marshall Thornton

Marshall Thornton is an award-winning author, playwright and screenwriter living in Long Beach, California. Author of the Boystown detective series and the The Perils of Praline, or the Amorous Adventures of a Southern Gentleman in Hollywood, he holds an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA. While there he received the Carl David Memorial Fellowship and was recognized in the Samuel Goldwyn Writing awards. Marshall has had plays produced in both Chicago and Los Angeles and stories published in The James White Review and Frontier Magazine. His work can be found at numerous outlets online including Amazon’s Kindle Store, Fictionwise, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble.

Marshall Thornton Stories

Below you can find the complete collection of stories by Marshall Thornton.

Fooling around on a picnic

17 Nov 2010 comments

This is an excerpt from my short story The Christmas Visit published by Torquere Press and available at the Kindle store and other locations.

7.9 (8) 1903 Reads 9 Min

Hot On His Trail

29 Oct 2010 comments

Set in 1981 Chicago this excerpt is from Little Boy Lost, the first story in Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries.

8.7 (3) 733 Reads 8 Min

Sexy Firemen

15 Oct 2010 comments

This is an excerpt from Little Boy Burned, part of my mystery series Boystown. It's set in Chicago in 1981.

8.1 (12) 3460 Reads 4 Min