Literary Garage

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. 🔥

Hero | Literary 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

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#GodsAndHeroes #fiction

Hero | Literary Garage

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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Rolling The Bones | Literary Garage

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

When Gods Grow Old | Literary Garage

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

Eden | Literary Garage

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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literarygarage.com/eden
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#GodsAndHeroes #LitGarage

The Day The Cetus Went Vegan | Literary Garage

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

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 God of War | Literary Garage

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

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

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#fiction #GodsAndHeroes #WritingCommunity

The Real McCoy | Literary Garage

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

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

Whatever Happened To The Heroes | Literary Garage

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
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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

Whatever Happened To The Heroes | Literary Garage

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...
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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. ⚡️⚡️

Enraptured at the Pearly Gates | Literary Garage

Flying into the day with a sharp, witty, self-aware, story wrapped around mythic/religious conceit from
@carlottadale.bsky.social

It's clever, literate, layered with allusion & unafraid of both theology and sarcasm

Read ENRAPTURED AT THE PEARLY GATES: literarygarage.com/enraptured-a...

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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....
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Expiration Date | Literary Garage

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...

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#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-...

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The Book of Artemis | Literary Garage Flash Fiction

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-...

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#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.
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#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. ⚡
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#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.🌩️
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#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!
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#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

Still Life | Literary Garage

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
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