Month: May 2025
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4 Poems by Mirvat Manal
I’ll throw my hat in this worldly race once more. Penniless & bold I’ll bare it all.
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Accidental Zeitgeist Novelist by Ben Macnair
You become that which you most despised, in your callow youth.
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peppery lobotomies by Theodore Wallbanger
We run through syrupy sheens of glazed happiness getting nowhere
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Salty Cans & Rusty Sunglasses by Nicholas Viglietti
Shanders dropped his ¾ full can-of-beer; making a loud, dense thud.
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The Lemondrop Dream Blog: Husband won’t honor 6 of 10 non-negotiables
My dh (dear husband) of 8 years has recently begun sluffing off.
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Kitchen Inconsequential Part 2: POTWASH by George Vincent
Lee, who got me the trial shift, told me to dress in black, black top black jeans. It was a Friday night.
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EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN DEEPLY FULFILLING IMAGINATIVE LIVES EXCEPT STEVE
Finally after two years our suspicions have been confirmed.
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4 new poems by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
Moonshine murders of the past, dead bodies hidden behind blue walls
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imagine by Theodore Wallbanger
Addictions impaled Johnny’s fragile worlds, systematically collapsing fabricated protection blankets hand-stitched by Aesop’s fables.
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Frog by Sean G. Meggeson
She found it pleasurable marking up items and making people really pay. Or, making them feel wanting because they couldn’t pay.
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MITCHELL KENNEDY MASTERCLASS IN ORDERING AT PEORIA’S FINEST 3 RESTAURANTS
Fine dining with a pet CAN be daunting for the inexperienced.
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Presidential Suite: Tempers, Temperatures, and Two Ex-Presidents (When Hissy Fits Make History) by Zenith Knox
After their wives kick them out of their homes, Bill and George are forced to share an apartment in Washington, D.C.
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Timmy the Cutter by JD Clapp
He got a job at the local mill, the only place that would hire him, cutting lumber.
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We Is Series Gorko Club of Books: Two by Adam Johnson
The Gorko reviews two contemporary classics from the warped metaverse of indie lit’s one and only Adam Johnson
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my mother should be Pope by Theodore Wallbanger
Before I was rocketed into the cornfields of Shunnedland, the Church was the clubhouse for all gatherings of congregations filled with believers who met and repeated words with song.
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MAYBE I JUST *WILL* HAVE TWO COOKIES BY LITTLE DAVID GREENER
Little David Greener reached out his hand to where the cookies lay in a dish on the coffee table.
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The Judge by Steve Passey
He took his rifle and leveraged himself on to the top of the roof of the line cabin, there to lie low and to await whatever might come.
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First Sight and some more of the story by Karol Nielsen
My mother was fourteen and my father was sixteen when he first saw her at a Keen Time dance.
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Nixon Reeks Again by Wolfgang Wright
According to an informant going by the name of ‘Deep Pudding,’ the lengthy gap in the June 20, 1972 audio tape was in fact erased deliberately.
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We Is Series Gorko Club of Books: Two by Benjamin Drevlow
The Gorko reviews two rude and pissy, tender and lovin collections from the hard-bouncing editor of BULL
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GORKO CHEF RAMBO BOLILLO RIGOROUSLY TESTS ANOTHER RECIPE
Here is a breakdown of Rambo’s famous test.
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IN THE HOUSE OF SALT, EVERY WINDOW IS AN OPEN WOUND by J.R. Solonche
In the house of courage, there is no need for fathers. In the house of books, there is no need for doors.
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Rhubarb by Gulliver S. Gulliver
Don Rococo knew exactly who Tammy Henson was, and had had her in his sights for some time.
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CONFESSIONS OF AN UNKNOWN HINSON IMPERSONATOR by Anthony Neil Smith
Black suit, ink-black Elvis hair, fake teeth, rockabilly swagger. I didn’t have the voice down back then, but the partygoers were still impressed.
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CLASSIC GORKO: THE FACES OF YOUR FRIENDS
We are looking forward to seeing the faces of your friends.
