Month: October 2024
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3 poems by Oliver Baer
The pneumatic hiss of crypt air coalesces Mandibles clack in time Pedal phalanges pounding out a beat
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You Can Leave Now by Nolcha Fox
She took a few more steps backwards into the water. She was chest-deep.
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fruit salad by Theodore Wallbanger
I felt I had just pierced a salacious love triangle between aggressive pineapple bits
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MISSING! Selections from Mykyta Ryzhykh
The ghetto of time sticks to the void And black birds are knocking on the broken window
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The Gorko’s 2025 Pushcart Nominations
The Gorko’s Pushcart nominations are here! Read all six pieces here.
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GORKO CHEF RAMBO BOLILLO: HOW TO TURN YOUR FAVORITE CHESSBOARD INTO A SCRUMPTIOUS CHEESEBOARD
Draw lines on Karla’s back to make HER into a chessboard.
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WHAT YOU MISSED WHILE NAPPING IN THE CAR by J.R. Solonche
the driver of a brand new Cadillac, the color of pewter, / its topaz headlights squinting in the sunlight, / for squandering, for ostentation, for vanity.
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My Summer Vacation: Book review by Hugh Blanton
Somehow, a post-menopausal woman decided that the What-I-Did-Over-Summer-Vacation genre would make for a great novel. No, I’m not kidding.
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Poet In an Empty Bottle and 1 more by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
When inebriated with earthly delusion and desire, I crawl inside
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Make It a Double and You Can Have New York by Alex Rost
But after the invasion, they honed the machine so it could send people back Terminator-style, in their physical form, able to alter the course of what was once history.
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THE DAEMON THAT LIVES IN THE CELLAR OF THE REFECTORY HAS STRUCK AGAIN, BROTHER ETHERNAN
That is right, little tassle-top, do NOT go in the refectory cellar or the demon that lives there shall surely twist your top off.
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Running with Hatchets by Mark Tulin
I came into the Ransom home with high expectations, thinking I could transform the family into a reasonably happy one, much like the Simpsons or the Bundys.
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Her name is Lizzie Handerson, and I love her by Little David Greener
Oh I know, she must have changed it. It used to be Henderson, now it is Handerson.
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What’s Missing from the Missing and 1 more by John Grey
Would it disturb you to know that how much I miss you can be momentarily numbed
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Mitch’s Movie Mash!!! Joker: A Goddess Called Foley (2024)
Yes there are many scenes of over-the-top, incredibly gory cop-on-clown violence, but do not think that this is your typical superhero-meets-slasher.
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SOME WEAR THEIR HEART ON THEIR SLEEVE, FOR ME IT’S THE COLOSTOMY BAG
Well for me it is different, ever since the accident: I bare my ass to the world.
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Falstaff at the Bar and 1 more by Benjamin Macnair
Here he comes again, fourth pint down and three more to go
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The Theme of the Week is Mascara
But why do you have to blacken the lashes, too, as you ride the number 18 bus downtown?
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Stank You and 1 more by Theodore Wallbanger
In years prior, the flatulent were discretionary in the launch of their air plop darts.
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Have You Seen this Bear? by Cheryl Snell
So Teddi and the boy grew up together, but when Teddi became bigger than the boy, she was always hungry.
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2 poems by Tempest Miller
your beautiful topknot parts the vermillion border warrior class haircut angles for supremacy
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Liberace Pollock Sandwiches by Theodore Wallbanger
‘The Terminator’ had just dropped in town so most of the lipsticks thought this was supreme badass.
