Above each story is the author's suggested musical accompaniment, thus adding to the magazine's intended effect of engaging multiple senses.
Sybil's Garage was founded in 2003 by Matthew Kressel and Devin Poore of Hoboken, New Jersey as an experiment in creating their own zine.
They are Toiya Kristen Finley's "Eating Ritual," James B. Pepe's "I Am Enkidu, His Wild Brother," and Genevieve Valentine's "The Drink of Fine Gentlemen Everywhere."
In the 2007 edition (page xxxviii), praise is given to Eric Gregory's story, "The Redaction of Flight 5766," and poems by Bobbi Sinha-Morey and Ed Lynskey.
For issue seven, associate editors included Paul M. Berger, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Rajan Khanna, Devin Poore, Mercurio D. Rivera, and Greer Woodward.
The intertextual "handwritten" notes in the margins of issue six reference work by Gary Numan and Tubway Army on their album Replicas.
The woman on the TV is associate editor Alaya Dawn Johnson's sister, Lauren, singing at a karaoke bar in Manhattan.
In addition, the cover would feature a miniature galaxy floating in mid-air, spewing out the authors names in a spiral.
Randomly sprinkled throughout issue five are quotes from the 1983 concept album "Dazzle Ships" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).
Other languages that appear throughout the issue are Russian, Greek, German, Korean, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic and Italian.
The quotes above their heads reiterate the last two moves of the famous immortal game of 1851 between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky.
In early 2006, at a party, writer Mercurio D. Rivera attempted to call the phone number on the door of the pick-up truck.
3 is actually the rear of the Hoboken Ferry Terminal, which according to the NY Waterway's website transports over 24,000 passengers daily.
Many of the images in that issue were taken from a hand-made, autographed book of engravings entitled Prelude to a Million Years by Lynd Ward, copy 102 of 920, generously donated by David Crane.
Sybil's Garage has published notable authors including Bruce Boston, Bruce Holland Rogers, William Shunn, Bram Stoker Award winning author Lee Thomas, Richard Bowes, Steve Rasnic Tem, Paul Tremblay, Yoon Ha Lee, K. Tempest Bradford, Samantha Henderson, Kris Dikeman, Lauren McLaughlin, and Mercurio D. Rivera.
They have also published interviews with slipstream fiction writer Kelly Link, multiple award-winning author Jeffrey Ford, and Hoboken historian Jim Hans.