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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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This story from E.D. Taylor begins with a perfect swipe of lipstick & ends with a disappearance.

A haunting tale about the rituals we learn, the dreams we chase, & the dark turns life takes when the universe stops listening.

Read the story:
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December 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Meet Max — the cashier who became a TV icon, lost everything, & returned to the only place he ever felt real: a Shop-Smart checkout lane.

A story about connection, collapse, & the strange holiness of ordinary life.

And Max? Read about him at the Garage:
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December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This morning's story from @scribblerotoole.bsky.social is taut, cinematic, and steeped in atmosphere. It reads like pure McKinty meets le Carré: morally gray, procedural, and emotionally tight.

You can read it here:
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December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
For the rush hour crowd sitting on a train or a bus (not those of you in a car - wait 'til you get home). It's late, daylight's fading - perfect time to settle in with this story from @scribblerotoole.bsky.social

Read it:
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December 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This morning's story from @scribblerotoole.bsky.social is taut, cinematic, and steeped in atmosphere. It reads like pure McKinty meets le Carré: morally gray, procedural, and emotionally tight.

You can read it here:
literarygarage.com/the-big-man
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#fiction #writing #shortstory
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December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We're finishing the week with this flash from James Callan. It's an excellent piece that lives in the margins between crime fiction and literary gothic.

Head over to the Garage to check it out:
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Renewal | Literary Garage
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December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's flash is from J. Marquez Jr - a tight, muscular, and hyper-visual crime story rooted in carceral, West Coast, gang-politics reality.

The rhythm of this one is driven by sound.

Check it out:
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December 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
For the rush hour crowd (ICYMI while sitting in traffic), hurry home so you can check out @tammywritesbooks.bsky.social
's Southern Gothic story - the subtle shift from cozy to lethal puts this story in a class of its own!
Now at the Garage:
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December 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We’re back this morning with a darkly comic, small-town morality story from @tammywritesbooks.bsky.social. With roots in Southern Gothic & crime noir that reads like Flannery O’Connor meeting Carl Hiaasen with a lethal punch.

Read it here:
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December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We’re beginning the week with a warm, funny, tender and quietly devastating piece from Lynne Curry (lynnecurryauthor.com)
It’s an intimate story – close enough that you can feel its breath and heartbeat.
Check it out here:
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December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We may be the new kids on the block, but we still get to do some cool stuff, like nominate stories for Pushcart Prizes.
Congrats to @jdclappwrites.bsky.social and @mikemchone.bsky.social for their outstanding stories.

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November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Today we're featuring a sharp, funny, observant, self-aware, & thematically layered story from @charliekondek.bsky.social.

It lives at the intersection of satire, metafiction, & near-future social commentary.

Head over to the Garage to read:
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November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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":
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Clean-Up In Aisle 13 | Literary Garage
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November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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.
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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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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM