Author: thegorkogazette
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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.
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Tanizaki Soup Song by Parker Galloway
i’m lost in contemplation soup, it’s les murmures, les chuchetemenz
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IN THE AFTERMATH OF FINDING SEA HORSE FOSSILS by Shrutidhora P Mohor
Last April when I checked into room 14 on the first floor as usual, dad and son were already there in the adjacent room, playing chess through sultry, sticky long afternoons.
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GIVE A MAN A MATTRESS AND HE WILL JUST GO TO SLEEP. 3 THINGS TO GIVE A MAN GUARANTEED TO SPICE UP YOUR LOVE LIFE
The gift of cash is not always the worst idea.
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While Walking by the Corner Store, I Overheard a Couple of Drug Dealers Talking About Drone Strikes and 2 more by Justin Karcher
For a moment, I allowed myself to imagine a desperate amateur astronomer
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The Poppy Runner and 1 more by Damon Hubbs
A bird and a fish may fall in love, but where would they live
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Intro to poetry and 2 more by Justin Lacour
my libido was like the possessed man who lived in the tombs
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A Complicated Dream Told as if Included in Akira Kurosawa’s Final Film, Dreams by Nora Rawn
Sterling service, doily. Scene. Family wealth from the diamond mine
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Odysseus stabs the eye of the cyclops and 1 more by Sarp Sozdinler
I held my breath during sirens to mute my blood The sink kept coughing up rust
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Crud Magazine Website by Bill Tope
Take your time and get to know the real Crud and, if you feel inspired, please read the following submission guidelines.
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The Blaze of Yesterday and 1 more by Donna Dallas
Orange haired leprechaun and his broomstick in the doorway of 12
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ARE YOU A NATURAL VICTORIAN GENTLEMAN?
Do you frequently step around ragamuffins in the street, cursing them in Victorian English?
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Ipswich to Pride’s Crossing and 2 more by Michael Igoe
It will take a lot more than you think, / if you’re planning on a crash landing
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GORKO CHEF RAMBO BOLILLO’S VEGAN RECIPE FOR WHISKEY ON THE ROCKS
Most of Rambo’s favorite things to eat and drink are absolutely within bounds.
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THE CLASS & HAPPY HOUR by J.R. Solonche
Now is the hour of the great softening when the sharp edges of the workday begin to blur.
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a nature poem in the style of my turkish esl girlfriend & dad’s antarctic mission by Aaron Barry
I started wearing faux leather pants but chafing restricted my movements and people took to gawking
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A Training Guide by Iryna Somkina
You aren’t training for a beach in July. You are training for the bar fight you can’t avoid.
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The new logo for Teddy Wallbanger and Team and 4 additional chalks by Theodore Wallbanger
Abe Kadabra paid no attention to trivial matters because he ran on fire energy.
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A Brief History of Transportation by Patrick Carella
We are approaching millennium. Observe the evolution of the human in the command pod—darker, more muscular—almost equine.
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What is your urgency statement? by Bruce Reisner
The man’s urgency was pure garbage. All our urgencies were a fabrication. Sad.
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A BOWL OF WORMS NEVER LOOKED SO MUCH LIKE SPAGHETTI BY LITTLE DAVID GREENER
‘This particular bowl of nightcrawlers probably looked more like spaghetti than any of my previous bowls of worms.’
