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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.
@literarygarage.bsky.socialDarkly funny, grotesque, and genuinely nasty, “The Custodian” by Ed Ahem is a supernatural horror story about desperation, bad choices, and the cost of disturbing something that considers the house its sanctuary.
At the Garage:
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@literarygarage.bsky.socialHey- our Bad Intentions editor @kmwriter01.bsky.social is back this week with another SIDE B, this week featuring @keithroysdon.bsky.social 's 70s story "Sunset Stakeout". Check it out.
@literarygarage.bsky.socialIf you’ve read either book & enjoyed it, a short review on Amazon or Goodreads makes a bigger difference to a small press than you might realize. Even a sentence or two helps another reader decide whether to take a chance on the book. Thanks for reading & for supporting independent publishing.
@literarygarage.bsky.socialOver the past 18 months, Literary Garage has expanded beyond the magazine & into book publishing with Saints of the Asphalt and Bad Intentions, there’s much more to come.
@kcselbywrites.bsky.socialReposted by @literarygarage.bsky.socialRead my latest flash piece, “The Silk Target”, at @literarygarage.bsky.social!
@literarygarage.bsky.socialIn a sterile treatment ward where desperation's become routine, one man swallows the odds & waits to see what kind of universe he lives in.
Sharp & unsettling, “The Miracle Pill” is a dark little story about fear, chance & 1 question that arrives too late
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@zimwrites.bsky.socialReposted by @literarygarage.bsky.socialCool little Q&A on the story I did for Bad Intentions. Insights! Revelations! Or not!
@literarygarage.bsky.socialToday's 2nd flash-
At an art gallery full of expensive clothes, expensive opinions & carefully curated manners, one woman picks a target in pink silk—and makes her move with a glass of Merlot.
Check out "The Silk Target" by @kcselbywrites.bsky.social :
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@literarygarage.bsky.social1st up:
Dark, funny, grotesque, and wickedly efficient, “Fine Print” by David Henson is a sharp little tale about greed, loopholes, and the dangers of not reading all the way to the bottom.
Check it out at the Garage:
literarygarage.com/fine-print
@literarygarage.bsky.socialThis week at Literary Garage: THE TRAP CLOSES. A bad bargain. A clean misdirection. A fifty-fifty miracle. And one very unpleasant custodial arrangement. Four stories. Each one tightens the screws a little more.
@literarygarage.bsky.socialThis week’s Behind the Story goes inside
@zimwrites.bsky.social “Heartache Spoken Here, Whispers Suzie Lightning”.
Read a cool Q & A and check out how the story came together at the St**K:
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@literarygarage.bsky.socialYou can prepare for almost anything.
Fill the tank. Check the tires. Pack water, flares, blankets, chains, a shovel. Charge the phone. Download the app.
And still find yourself driving toward something bigger than all of it.
literarygarage.com/the-mint-of-...
@literarygarage.bsky.socialMemory is a funny thing.
In “What Were You Watching,” JJ Landry looks back on one night in 1999—and the enormous difference between what a seventeen-year-old boy thought he witnessed and what the man he became now understands happened.
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@literarygarage.bsky.socialA grimy, darkly funny crime story about loneliness, desperation, self-deception—and the kind of trouble that starts looking like opportunity.
Today at the Garage:
literarygarage.com/handyman
@kmwriter01.bsky.socialReposted by @literarygarage.bsky.socialDAYDREAM BELIEVER is out today from Shotgun Honey.
Thrilled to have my story “Goin’ Down” included in this Monkees-inspired crime anthology alongside a terrific group of writers. Bad decisions, desperation, darkness & a song I knew I had to write from…
@literarygarage.bsky.socialToday at BEHIND THE STORIES, @JoelNedecky talks about his writing career & "Oil in the Bones" a gripping crime story that asks how far any of us would go to save the people we love.
At the St**K:
@literarygarage.bsky.socialFollowing that is a story about an AI-saturated future where longevity hasn’t created freedom - it's simply made the sentence longer.
Darkly funny, strange, angry & disturbingly recognizable...
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@literarygarage.bsky.socialFirst up is a sharp, funny flash about adolescents, panic, power & one very badly timed bird (part classroom chaos, part Salem hysteria— a reminder of how quickly something harmless can become something else entirely when authority enters the room).
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@literarygarage.bsky.socialWe've got a double-feature today at the Garage!
@literarygarage.bsky.socialJames C. Bassett gives the classic Western showdown an existential twist. Two strangers ride into Purgatory. Neither offers a name. Neither intends to leave.
Sometimes a man has to stand his ground.
Even if nobody knows who the hell he is.
