Easing into the Thanksgiving holiday with a really strong piece that has a clear, confident comedic-voice narrator from Niles Reddick — the kind of story where the character IS the entertainment. Love the voice in this story. Check out "Clean-up In Aisle 13": literarygarage.com/clean-up-in-... 🎸📚

For the Friday night crowd- Roll into the weekend with this great story from @meproctor.bsky.social - retro noir in an stylish voice that blends Chandler, John D. MacDonald, & Ross Macdonald. The pacing in this one is superb with sharp dialogue, sensory richness, and emotional subtlety

New at Literary Garage: Tom Keegan is back. Fresh off the pages of BOP CITY SWING, sharp, elegant noir from @meproctor.bsky.social that blends romance, grit, & classic detective work Sun, sea breeze, champagne & mystery. “Ramona” is live now at Lit Garage. literarygarage.com/ramona 🎸📚

If you like your crime fiction gritty, spare, and morally complicated, this story from @kmwriter01.bsky.social hits hard and leaves a mark. Revenge doesn’t follow the rules. Read it. Sit with it. Feel the weight. Check it out: literarygarage.com/no-tears-for... 🎸📚🎶 #fiction #writing #stories

ICYMI: I have a website. No, I didn’t code it—some days turning on the coffee machine is peak tech for me. It’s live, it’s gritty, & it has my short stories + SAINTS info. Fair warning: no snacks, treats, or pet pics. Just stories. downingfiction.com

For the rush hour crowd, we've got @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social's stylish story with equal parts gritty neo-noir, sweaty Southern gothic, pulp violence. and dark, lyrical, image-heavy prose. Give it a read at the Garage: literarygarage.com/hot-and-cold... #fiction 🎸📚

Today's flash is a dark, gritty and stylishly voiced story from @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social . It takes a bit of neo-noir, combines it with sweaty Southern gothic & a bit of pulp violence. Head over to the Garage to check it out: literarygarage.com/hot-and-cold... 🎸📚

A topless bar. A day drinking Stroh’s. A tarot-reading girlfriend who may or may not be psychic. Dan Delehant looks back on a Detroit afternoon in the 80s and the woman he loved, lost, and maybe never deserved in the first place. New today at Lit Garage. literarygarage.com/inkster

For the rush hour crowd: Sometimes you wake up and there’s nothing left to give. Not a fuck. Not a reason. Not a prayer. @historiangraeme.bsky.social 's brutal, dream-lit dive into the mind of a man losing his grip on the sunlit world around him. Read it here: literarygarage.com/pat-frankly-...

Pat’s having a rough morning. The sun’s too bright. His neighbor’s not too happy. And his grip on reality? Hanging by a thread. historiangraeme.bsky.social's short story is about madness, envy, & the moment everything goes off the rails. Today at Lit Garage: literarygarage.com/pat-frankly-... 🎸📚

We’ve got a story that sits at the intersection of psychological realism & understated horror-comedy from Sonja Holm - a tight domestic gothic that’s funny, tense, and emotionally true. Read it here this morning: literarygarage.com/webmaster 🎸📚 #flash #fiction

We’re ending the week with this tightly written story from VA Wiswell about a man circling the drain but narrating the descent with razor-edged wit and reluctant honesty (Michael Chabon w/a touch of Nick Hornsby) You can read it here: literarygarage.com/wash-up 🎸📚 #fiction

For the afternoon crowd: @jdclappwrites.bsky.social 's crafted a story in the vein of Cormac McCarthy & Denis Johnson, a borderlands story of moral reckoning & quiet tragedy. Told through the eyes of a man who discovers that the hardest wounds to heal aren’t the visible ones. Yeah, it's that good

Today at the Garage we're featuring an excellent story from @jdclappwrites.bsky.social "Wounded” isn’t about hunting — it’s about what happens when doing the right thing comes with a price you don't expect. Check it out: literarygarage.com/wounded 🎸📷 #LitGarage #ShortStory #Wilderness

For the rush hour crowd- Today’s story from @mikemchone.bsky.social hits the high end of gritty American realism. It’s got a distinct, hardboiled neo-noir voice with Cormac McCarthy’s narrative inevitability, Elmore Leonard’s criminal ear, & Taylor Sheridan’s fatalist modern Western tone. 🎸📚

We're back with a story that hits the high end of gritty American realism from @mikemchone.bsky.social Love the fatalism, the stripped down moral compass & cinematic flow in a distinct, hardboiled neo-noir voice Check it out for yourself: literarygarage.com/i-stand-at-t... 🎸📚 #flash #fiction #noir

The amps are wired, the strings are loose, and the Garage door’s half-open. We’re catching our breath today — call it a soundcheck for the stories to come. Tomorrow, Literary Garage plugs back in. New riffs. More writers. Same loud, unapologetic heart. #LitGarage #RockAndWrite

Our Gods & Heroes run just crossed the finish line. Big thanks to every writer who brought the fire and every reader who fueled it. Next up: new voices, new stories, same badass energy. See you back in the Garage. 🔥

For the rush hour crowd (ICYMI): We end our Gods and Heroes ⚡️feature with a modern personal essay that blends memoir & fiction from @me0wmixlaura.bsky.social A warm, intimate, nostalgic, & emotionally reflective story to check out: literarygarage.com/hero 🎸📚 #GodsAndHeroes #fiction

We end our Gods and Heroes ⚡️⚡️feature with a modern personal essay that blends memoir and fiction from @[email protected] A warm, intimate, nostalgic, & emotionally reflective story you can check out: literarygarage.com/hero 🎸📚

Jumpstart your morning with this wry, sardonic, and charmingly self-aware story from @carlottadale.bsky.social (hooked us right from: “For me, the Grim Reaper, this was embarrassing.”) The latest in Gods and Heroes... Check it out: literarygarage.com/rolling-the-... 🎸📚 #GodsAndHeroes #fiction

Gods and Heroes is back this morning with a clever, witty mythological satire from Simon Collinson that updates Olympus for the modern age with a distinctly British comedic sensibility.⚡️⚡️ Slide over to the Garage to check it out: literarygarage.com/when-gods-gr... 🎸📚 #GodsAndHeroes #flash

He painted her in purple and blue. She called him Adam. When art starts talking back, you’ve crossed into divine territory. Eden— a fever dream from our Gods & Heroes series from @nhilbourn.bsky.social ⚡️⚡️ literarygarage.com/eden 🎸📚😎 #GodsAndHeroes #LitGarage

For the evening crowd - ICYMI, a hungover sea monster tries going vegan until a craving for man-flesh reminds her that self-acceptance sometimes means embracing the beast within. Check out @madeleinewrite.bsky.social 's Gods and Heroes story: literarygarage.com/the-day-the-... 🎸📚😎

Get your Thursday rolling with today's story from @madeleinewrite.bsky.social -a fun blend of irreverent humor, mythological remixing, and feminist bite. This one’s a total riot. Darkly comic, mythic, and self-aware in all the best ways. Read it now: literarygarage.com/the-day-the-... 🎸🥁📚📚⚡️⚡️

For the rush hour crowd. ICYMI, today's Gods & Heroes feature is modern crime operating at full throttle from @kmwriter01.bsky.social Visual, cinematic, elemental, like watching a film by Michael Mann (Heat) or Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water). Check it out: literarygarage.com/the-god-of-war

Gods and Heroes keeps the chaos coming this morning. Today's story is a hybrid of modern crime fiction and ancient epic translated to the streets from @kmwriter01.bsky.social You can read "The God of War" here: literarygarage.com/the-god-of-war 🎸📚⚡️⚡️⚡️ #fiction #GodsAndHeroes #WritingCommunity

Today's Gods and Heroes story from Scott MacLeod reads like Hemingway by way of Raymond Carver. A Depression-era fable of innocence, hero worship, and the quiet ruin beneath small-town myth. Check it out: literarygarage.com/the-real-mccoy 🎸📚⚡️⚡️

Man. This story by @kmwriter01.bsky.social grabs you by the throat from the start and doesn’t let go. An emotional, excellent read.

For the afternoon crowd. A jazz bar. A glass of scotch. A goddess with a mission. He swore he was done being a hero, but the world has other plans. A smoky, myth-soaked Gods and Heroes story from @offerkuban.bsky.social ⚡️⚡️ literarygarage.com/whatever-hap...

AVAILABLE NOW: Some say the world will end in fire or flood. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today, including @kmwriter01.bsky.social. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK

Some stories start with a call to adventure. This one starts with a half-melted ice cube & a goddess who doesn’t take no for an answer.⚡️⚡️ @offerkuban.bsky.social hits the sweet spot between grounded storytelling & divine metaphor. literarygarage.com/whatever-hap... 🎸🥁📚

The Gods and Heroes feature returns Monday (10/20). Stories every day till 10/24, then again the next week, because one more week of divine drama just isn’t enough. Ends 10/31. Got a story with a god complex? A hero on a coffee break? We’re still open for one or two more. ⚡️⚡️

Day 3 of Gods and Heroes. The divine drama continues, and the mortals are still cleaning up the mess. It’s passion, power, and poor decisions — basically, Friday.

If you haven't yet checked out @keithroysdon 's story "Expiration Date" - equal parts comedy, fable and quiet miracle - it's a fun read we think you'll enjoy. Seriously, check it out now. We'll wait.... 🎸📚🥁😱😎

In the vein of Neil Gaiman meets Kurt Vonnegut, today's story is a wry, fast-moving story where God shows up in a bar & tests a bartender’s heart. Equal parts comedy, fable, & quiet miracle from @keithroysdon.bsky.social Read it: literarygarage.com/expiration-d... 🎸📚🥁 #GodsAndHeroes #fiction

For the afternoon crowd- Our Gods and Heroes feature has officially landed — stories where the divine and the mortal blur, & the real myths begin. 1st up: The Book of Artemis literarygarage.com/the-book-of-... 🎸📚

First up: a stunning, harrowing piece by Kristi Schirtzinger— lyrical, mythic, & brutal in equal measure. The writing fuses Southern Gothic realism with mythic symbolism Read it now at: literarygarage.com/the-book-of-... 🎸📚🥁🎤 #GodsAndHeroes #LiteraryGarage #NewFiction #WritersAreTheRealGods

Our Gods and Heroes feature has officially landed — stories where the divine and the mortal blur, & the real myths begin. There are no capes. No lightning bolts from CGI clouds. Just writers brave enough to take on the gods (and win). #fiction #godsandheroes #flash

Tomorrow, mortals and gods collide. ⚡ Our Gods and Heroes feature kicks off—divine drama, mortal mistakes, and mythic mayhem await. Brace yourselves. 🎸🥁🎹🎤📚 #LiteraryGarage #GodsAndHeroes

Gods and Heroes submissions are still open. Got divine drama? Mortal mistakes? A god with attachment issues? We want it. The lineup’s already epic—but there’s always room for another legend. Knock us off our cloud. ⚡ 🎸🥁📚 #LiteraryGarage #GodsAndHeroes

No new issue this week. The editors are in recovery mode (mostly from caffeine and existential dread). Still, we’re hungry for your "Gods and Heroes" stories—send us something divine, doomed, or both. We want to see them! Back next week. Bring offerings.🌩️ 🎸🥁🎹🎤📚 #submissions #fiction

We’re off this week. The amps are cooling, the editors are recharging, & someone’s still arguing about comma placement. Next week: Gods and Heroes. It’s like mythology, but with better lighting and worse decisions. If ya got something- send it in! 🎸🥁📚 #submissions #literarygarage

For the afternoon crowd, just getting home from work. What if killing a man once wasn’t enough? “Still Life” — a vicious little story about revenge, humiliation, and the art of slow death. Now at Literary Garage. literarygarage.com/still-life

NEW at Literary Garage: “Still Life” by @jnglckmn.bsky.social A hard, mean little noir about respect, revenge, and what we do to keep a man alive after we’ve already killed him. Short, brutal, and uncomfortably funny. Read it: literarygarage.com/still-life #shortfiction #Noir 🎸🥁📚

For the late afternoon/early evening crowd, check out Lynne Curry's latest (love the way menace is layered into gesture and body language). Read it for yourself: literarygarage.com/where-the-tr... #FictionLovers #FictionLovers 📚🎸

Start October with this survival-thriller/cult-horror hybrid story from Lynne Curry. Think Cormac McCarthy's stripped-down atmosphere with Peter Heller’s wilderness lyricism & a touch of Blake Crouch’s thriller pacing. Read it here: literarygarage.com/where-the-tr... #fiction

We end the week with this tension-filled story from @jymwrite.bsky.social . There's a historical noir vibe that we like a lot, with stripped-down sentences & blunt dialogue-driven exchanges (has an Alan Furst feel). Read it here: literarygarage.com/the-dragon #fiction #writing

Roll into Thursday with this story from @jdclappwrites.bsky.social . So much to love about this one – cool first-person voice, dialogue, and the spare, everyday details (has a little bit of a Daniel Woodrell/Raymond Carver feel). Read it here: literarygarage.com/now-that-cha... #fiction