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Writing with a serrated edge.

Like the rock and roll garage bands of the 1960’s and 1970's (as well as the modified versions that showed up in the 1980’s) – straight ahead story telling with a purpose.

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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

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Ramona | Literary Garage
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November 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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

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November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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:
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No Tears For Crying | Literary Garage
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November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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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.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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...

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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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...
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Hot and Cold on a Long Taut Road | Literary Garage
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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-...
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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-...
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Pat Frankly Doesn’t Give a Fuck | Literary Garage
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November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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:
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November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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
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November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
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#LitGarage #ShortStory #Wilderness
Wounded | Literary Garage
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November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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
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#LitGarage #ShortStory #Wilderness
Wounded | Literary Garage
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November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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.
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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...
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#flash #fiction #noir
I Stand At The Door | Literary Garage
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November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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...
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#flash #fiction #noir
I Stand At The Door | Literary Garage
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November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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. 🔥
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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

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#GodsAndHeroes #fiction
Hero | Literary Garage
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October 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We end our Gods and Heroes ⚡️⚡️feature with a modern personal essay that blends memoir and fiction from
@me0wmixlaura@bsky.social

A warm, intimate, nostalgic, & emotionally reflective story you can check out:

literarygarage.com/hero
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Hero | Literary Garage
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October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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-...

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#GodsAndHeroes #fiction
Rolling The Bones | Literary Garage
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October 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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...
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#GodsAndHeroes #flash
When Gods Grow Old | Literary Garage
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October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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
⚡️⚡️

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#GodsAndHeroes #LitGarage
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October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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-...
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The Day The Cetus Went Vegan | Literary Garage
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October 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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-...
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The Day The Cetus Went Vegan | Literary Garage
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October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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
The God of War | Literary Garage
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October 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM