Author: thegorkogazette
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Plan B by Iryna Somkina
We were barely taught. I keep what I can carry: Majoritarian, Proportional, Mixed; the U.S. from school; Latin America.
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LOCAL JOGGER LACKS A CERTAIN JE NE SAIS QUOI
No, that wasn’t it. It was a…a…a certain je ne sais quoi.
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3 ICONIC FLOATING RESTAURANTS THAT JUST FLOATED AWAY
The ‘dining pucks’ also doubled as life preservers.
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Tenor and Boots On The Ground by Salvatore Difalco
Houses in the country, seashores, mountains, a wont to desire as much as earth mass.
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SINCE WHEN HAS BROTHER ETHERNAN BEEN SPORTING THE CELTIC TONSURE, THE LITTLE TWAT
Hey guys have you seen what Brother Ethernan did to his stupid little pate
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Untitled by Lisa Marie Zapata
The camera phone was angled to perfectly capture the pout and cleavage (with just enough slip of the nip.)
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A Meatless Course by James Callan
I shift Föður so he faces the valley that has been usurped from him.
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EWWW: THIS PEORIA-AREA MAN SHAVED HIS LEFT PELVIS
‘The trouble for [Darren] is that he was definitely shaving his pelvis. Why was he doing that?’
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Reincarnation and 2 more by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
In the next life, I will be a little higher up the pecking order. No longer a dishwasher at the House of Pancakes
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The Captive King and 1 more by Kushal Poddar
abuzz with hiraeth noises, memories desperate for fleshes
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Not This Time by Hugh Blanton
Perhaps Duchovny is unaware of cliché, or maybe he just can’t avoid it, but there are two poems here about the hole in his heart.
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The Theme of the Week is Cup-O-Joe
You can drink Cup-O-Joe in the morning to stimulate your poet brain.
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Bones and Gold by James Callan
A monkey skeleton clutches a coin, gold winking time-weathered disc, weakly fizzing
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NOTES FROM MY PUEBLO
When a dandy pulled a double-cover pocket watch from his vest it was something to see.
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A Letter to Maysam by Bill Tope
It’s been almost six weeks since I began my involuntary servitude and incarceration at the retirement home.
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LITERARY CRITIC AND ASSHOLE DON MARKENBALDI JUST STARTED WATERING HIS PETUNIAS IN SANDALS AND SOCKS
The so-called literary critic has never taken back his remarks about ‘Gulliver Soles’.
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At the Centro Administrativo del Poder Ejecutivo y Judicial General Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca City, 1925 by Gulliver S. Gulliver
Questionable poetry by the great modernist Gulliver S. Gulliver. Commentary by Tark Mackintosh.
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Book Excerpt: ‘GAFFE THE GIRAFFE’ by Dr. Mitchell M. Seuss
He was also the ugliest giraffe in the world, his mother told him.
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TALES FROM THE MONASTERY by J.R. Solonche
The Master picks up a stone from the ground. ’This stone is full of stone,’ he says.
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The Lemondrop Dream Blog: Are Citrus and Celeb Normal?
What Dustin Hoffman movies have you been watching recently, Randolph? I recently enjoyed watching Tootsie.
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GREAT MIDWESTERN TENNIS TOURNAMENT AND SLENDERMAN SIGHTING
The first Slenderman sighting was reported at the Great Midwestern Tennis Tournament in 2015 by a father of that year’s winner, Emery Nielson.
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Academy 666 by Simon Collinson
The school motto is now, ‘This is a tempting school, where everybody gives in to temptation.’
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corneRED by Theodore Wallbanger
there had to be death for me to begin secrets were spilled for my life to start
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Important Holiday Season Reminders from the Only Full-Blooded Jew in the Family by Eli Evans
Do not touch the dreidel while it is spinning.
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Paprika Salsa Rider by Theodore Wallbanger
Paprika Salsa Rider found himself torn between green or red alliances
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The Silver Screen by Gulliver S. Gulliver
Bad poetry by the great modernist Gulliver S. Gulliver. Commentary by Tark Mackintosh.
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BEST OF THE GORKO 2025
The real gift of 2024 was the creative work submitted to this space by more than 100 contributors: humor, short fiction, CNF, poems, and more.
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T-E GA-NTL-T by Antoine Bargel
I ra-se my fl-g a-ain an- a-ain the e-i-or ch-ps it d-wn. The ed-t-r is m- moth-r and my fl-g, y-u k-ow.
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MORE GORKO SURVIVORS BEGINNING TO SPEAK OUT
He made us think that WE were the ones with questionable taste, and then recruited us to write for him.
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He Has No Head by Ben Macnair
His consciousness, a neat little widget of self-awareness, seemed to have taken up residence somewhere near his sternum.
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The Big Santa by Simon Collinson
The one who came top was Neal from Rotheram, got the job as the main Santa.
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The Truth about Santa and 2 more by Brad Rose
Over the holiday weekend, I ingested a few careless stimulants and a couple of imperfect party favors.
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and sky has fallen and more short poems by Mykyta Ryzhykh
God’s button turns red and bursts. Forever.
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Vanities by Salvatore Difalco
They rode past the dusky villa where votary candles flickered in the cut glass windows. Others were awake.
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The Gorko’s 2025 Top 5 Literary Websites Of The World Ranked By How Many Times They Have Published Raddy
This year’s freshly garlanded winners of the Literary Websites Of This World award,
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IS THAT A FOOT-LONG SUB SANDWICH IN YOUR UBER EATS INSULATED DELIVERY BAG OR ARE YOU JUST GLAD TO SEE ME
Not that I always hit on the delivery boy but I noticed something different about you
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‘in the sad bin of dusters be’
One of the angriest members of Los Decepcionados, f. f. francés led a truly checkered life as poet, revolutionary, and renegado.
