Author: thegorkogazette
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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.
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Interview with Up Yours! Editor and Publisher Charlie Fishead by Bill Tope
This interview was conducted on Dec. 4, 2025 by Writing Style reporter Llib Epot in the London headquarters of Up Yours!.
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Short fiction by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Get your cards read by someone who really knows what they’re doing, that’s what you do.
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The Performing Poet: On Sarah Kay’s A Little Daylight Left by Hugh Blanton
The poems in End of Empire are completely humorless.
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2 fresh entries into the arts by Theodore Wallbanger
torched dreams yield to sun-cracked skin vessels accepting sloppy copper payouts
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THE HIDDEN COSTS OF OWNING AN ARMY OF GEMINOID M24-CLASS ASSAULT ROBOTS
All your neighbors already had the Trazolight Betas deployed on their borders.
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Everyone gets to live to 100 by Simon Collinson
Now school prepares us for a lifetime of not working in a post industrial society.
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WHAT IF YOU WERE A STUPID DUCK
Hey what is two plus two, we shouted at you, and you would reply by bobbing your head.
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Amazon Delivery Status Messages You Don’t Want to See (But Probably Will) by Jeff Kennedy
It appears your package has probably been delivered somewhere.
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FOR MANY, NO WORD FOR IT BUT ‘SLURVY’
The coffee demographic is no longer limited to adults. The kids have money, and they want sweet and minty.
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Mitch’s Movie Mash: Shades of ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Genius
When Mother first told me about 50 Shades of Grey I thought I would never get past page 69.
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Just Because You Wear Skinny Jeans…Doesn’t Mean You Are Skinny Jeans…Waist-Training Grid Reference Lost, Deleted, or Otherwise Missing, sec. 04 and sec. 05 by Mark Parsons
Like thin liquid through Porous fabric of A loose, ultra-absorbent weave
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A Name for the Interim by James Callan
During this time, I ditched my Joan Baez albums and Jerry Bears.
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My Friend, the Poet by Chris Callard
I ran into Craig, a Facebook friend from, well, Facebook in line at a coffee place.
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Degraded Toast and All Things Delight the Maker by Salvatore Difalco
Whatever may be a fitting response from a mouth full of cankers and cold sores.
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For Real not for Real by Antoine Bargel
Ever since I watched Earth explode I’ve had trouble sleeping.
