Author: thegorkogazette
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‘CAN YOU SPOT THE TEN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THESE TWO IMAGES?’ by Ron Arbuckle
I scan my eyes carefully over the two not so dissimilar images. Left to right. Top to bottom. One corner to the other.
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THERE ARE MORE THAN 50 NEW FEARS REGISTERED EVERY SINGLE HOUR ON PHOBIAPEDIA. HERE ARE THE TOP 6 FEARS MOST LIKELY TO COME TRUE IN YOUR LIFETIME
The fear of dropping your phone into an open sewer: dropsmartophobia.
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MITCH’S LET’S JUMP THE TOP GUN! TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2026 IN JULY
Gorko Entertainment Editor Mitchell Kennedy sticks a fork in those months of moviegoing madness with his annual LET’S JUMP THE TOP GUN – Mitch’s top movie picks of the year, only halfway through the year!
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Scary by Jon Vilardi
Through tears, he looks at the holographic Daft Punk poster above his direct-to-consumer rubber bed.
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Flight beyond the edge of a notebook page by Mykyta Ryzhykh
Fear of heights Fear of silence Fear of birds
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An Incomplete Survey of Americans who are named John Wayne but are not the legendary 20th-century film star John Wayne by Sarp Sozdinler
At least six Jon Waynes are displeased by the typo in their names.
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MISTER BANANA AND THE BANANA BOAT
I talked to the man who rents the banana boats but he just thought I wanted a job.
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ACE THAT GROCERY CLERK INTERVIEW WITH THESE 5 TIPS
You know you have the skills, the expertise and the experience to be the best grocery clerk in Peoria, so get ready to ace the interview with these 5 easy tips.
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You Can’t Clean Everything by Adam Kaz
But there are cleanable spots all over the house I can attack.
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Dinner with the Arsonists and 1 more by Samantha Hund
The glow of the chandelier Paints my fingertips pinot red
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Glove Love by Simon Collinson
We were performing, ‘Wake me up before you go go’ with a shuttlecock shoved into my shorts.
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REPORT: SHE ATE THEIR MAYONNAISE THEN HOPPED A TRAIN FOR CHARLOTTE
The enigmatic, swashbuckling figure of Tonya Klippenberg-Vattenwasch III, one-time Romanian Robin Hood.
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Three François Tristan L’Hermite Poems translated by Stephan Crown-Weber
Destins, faites-moi voir une ville allumée, Toute pleine d’horreur, de carnage et de bruit
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POETRY SOCIETY TO HEAR SHORT POEMS READ
‘Any visiting writer may take part in the program,’ announced the Society’s pamphlet.
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Critique by Bill Tope
Robert booted up his laptop and immediately navigated to Babies, Orphans and Puppies (BOP), his favorite literary zine.
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The Erotic Positions of Chewbacca & C-3PO and 2 additional chalks by Theodore Wallbanger
The first rule of Chalk Club is you don’t chalk about Chalk Club.
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Two Covers, One Net: Playing Through Damon Hubbs’ ‘Nighttime Logic’ by Iryna Somkina
I hated every single word I spoke, offering mattresses wearing a plastic headset
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Toilet Poems III & IV by Iryna Somkina
I hated every single word I spoke, offering mattresses wearing a plastic headset
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Gorko Chef Rambo Bolillo: It is just as easy to cook for four as for one, but I did not, did I
Then there is The Rambo Zone in the fridge, clearly marked out with masking tape.
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Walking Down St. Michael’s Hill After Seeing You For The Last Time by Karina Longo
a medicine against / closed curtains
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When the Goo Goes: A Study in Post-Prostatic Sadness by Patrick Carella
This paper examines the psychosocial aftermath of ejaculatory cessation following prostate removal.
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Equal Parts by Michael Igoe
I try to map the course of an evening beforehand. I hope to later gain control over its content and theme.
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The Gift for The Weakest by Shawn Scott Smith
Trying to comprehend the pleasure and pain, Of the fox and boar, Who had no sympathy for the small
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PERFECT: BABY BEFRIENDING GOAT DEFIES LAWS OF GRAVITY
He was letting the popular five-month kid billy Socks nibble goat feed from his outstretched baby hand when the miracle happened.
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Dispatches from the Emotional Trenches: A Guide to Being a Cancer by Iryna Somkina
A special Gorko correspondent delivers an ultimate, unfiltered reality check.
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food for though and 3 more by jenkin benson
eschew the eastside hubbellsores deflated santas tirefacturers
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Book Excerpt: ‘Taffy Blonde: From Russia With A Makarov’ by Ian Mitchell
It is no mistake that Mitchell has been checking out stacks of Ian Fleming novels from the library under an assumed name.
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Going Up by C. Hightower
Tents became hotels overnight. Red-white-and-blue banners fluttered like uncertain flags in a play with no ending.
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THE HEXAPODIC EXOSKELETONS FROM HELL by Steen W. Rasmussen
Unperturbed, he is, by the presence of the Queen of Sevenia—who, no longer seven‑legged on account of an unlucky run‑in with a gypsy moth
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The Son of Vulcan by James Callan
The darkest of evil has no lineage; no mother from whom to wean, no sire to claim their name.
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Preposterously Bad Poem by Professor Stout (writing as Mr. Heustis)
One of the more celebrated poems from Professor Stout’s second Jabs & Donner volume I love Seamen.
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A Review of Country-Mouse Synth Music by Stephan Crown-Weber
As you chuck-chuck nibble peanuts near the turnaround for twelve miles, dogs spot you, too simple to be construed as vicious.
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COUNT CHAUDES-AURILLAC IS COMING: HE WANTS THE MOVIE RIGHTS TO YOUR HISTORICAL NOVEL ‘THE CHAUDES AND THE AURILLACS’
THE NIGHTMARE HAS BECOME REALITY
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I literally spoilt the vanilla each time offered to me by Jayanta Bhaumik
there was no wall, no bar, so I found Dino like all find some day
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Pebbles with opened bodies and 2 more visual poems by Laszlo Aranyi
Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) poet, visual poet, anarchist, occultist from Hungary.
