Month: September 2024
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WHAT CAN YOU COOK OVER LIVE COALS WHILE THE NEIGHBORS ARE FINISHED BUT STILL COOLING? GORKO CHEF RAMBO BOLILLO REVEALS HIS SECRETS
Too bad, because we personally are fine with Sharon and Jeff, but who is perfect?
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Lack Thereof by Mehreen Ahmed
She said that this was from an accident too, when she had fallen off a motorbike once, in her teens.
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‘The Face of Art’ and 2 more by William Taylor Jr.
I order a blood orange IPA and Crystal the pretty bartender says, It’s a blood orange kinda day.
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New collages and poetry by Irina Tall
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator.
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THE GORKO’S 2025 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS!
The Gorko’s 2025 BotN nominations are here! Read all eleven pieces here.
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‘the cheesesteak rationale’ and 3 more by Neil Flory
burning over said membrane notion, shitcan probabilities
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POLITE SOCIETY DISCOVERED IN SOUTH PEORIA: THEY WERE THERE ALL ALONG!
Long rumored to haunt the parlors, churches, and Wednesday domino nights at VFW’s of the nation’s middle west, previous sightings were all eventually debunked as hoaxes.
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Missing: Art on the theme by Irina Tall
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator.
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‘Your Boss Used the Word Hollibobs’ and more news from the front by Benjamin Macnair
‘Thank God it is only three sleeps until the weekend when I will be kicking it again with my homies.’
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Plot Hole Exit: A book review by Hugh Blanton
Fire Exit had the potential to be a good story but was ruined by the plot hole, repetitive/overwrought prose, and sappy sentimentality
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CRYPTIC MESSAGE FOUND ON RADDY’S TYPEWRITER IN 1996 FINALLY DECODED
With the aid of the cutting-edge AI tool/persona Gorko Crimestopper Sleuth, Raddy himself revisited the weathered Letter and claims to have cracked it.
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PAY IT FORWARD? MORE LIKE PAY IT BECAUSE IT IS TAXES
Yes, Uncle Toby, they saw the curtains move and are going nowhere.
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THIS PEORIA WOMAN’S WEEK IS ONLY 1 DAY LONG SO FOR HER IT IS ALWAYS EITHER SATURDAY OR SUNDAY
‘My week only has one day,’ she bragged to The Gorko’s cub reporter, ‘and that day is either Saturday or Sunday.’
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Poems by M.P. Powers
for that chilly spring morning when dionysus pulls into the harbor in a cigarette boat and calls me aboard all my life
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‘mexican parties’ and 2 others by Ken Kakareka
is not actually for the person it’s supposed to be for.
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‘crumbles’ by Theodore Wallbanger
Lunchtime sunshine routines found Francois basking by the manicured edges of a secluded pond.
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NOVICES WHO HUM THE LITURGY WHILE HOEING SHALL BE BEATE WITH THEIR OWN SANDAL, THEREAFTER LOCKED IN THE SHITHAUSE TIL MATINS, BROTHER ETHERNAN
And no more loud longing sighs as you gaze upon the portraits of the martyrs, either, you little weirdo.
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‘After I Read Anne Carson I Know My Life is Wrecked’ by Damon Hubbs
I fall for a derby girl at the Delaware County Fair Her father owns a yogurt empire
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‘inversion’ by Theodore Wallbanger
morning commutes across metro lines positioned Ronald within the bustling sea of eyes that shielded electrified judgment factories
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The Theme of the Week is Missing: Lost At The Zoo
Little David Greener, of course, generally goes missing in the Snake House.
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POPE FINALLY MEETS TOM BRADY
Gushing to reporters in the locker room after Sunday’s Prego Tom Brady event in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy’s first live American football event that featured a faceoff between the G.O.A.T.’s own Tampa Bay Buccaneers and some other team,…
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‘Man boosted & lost has been found’ by Bob Gielow
He was found with a bag from Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, half-full with mocha hazelnut brittle bark, and a receipt from 10:51 am.
