Category: Fiction
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My Knight in Shining Armor by James Callan
He has baby blue eyes and flaxen hair, forget-me-nots and autumn wheat.
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Kevin by Rick White
It’s impossible to talk about the 2009 Sea World Dolphin Adventures Squad without mentioning Kevin.
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Brave Dreams & Dive-Bar Stew by Nicholas Viglietti
After 4-hours, and a few extra minutes of snooze, I’d be carvin’ waves like Thanksgivin’ Americans do.
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Prepared For My Demise by Bob Gielow
To help you avoid all that stressful planning while you are grieving for me, I’ve written out the following list of assignments.
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I Won’t Write a Poem About Us by Mileva Anastasiadou
about how we met on a plane years ago, and we talked for a couple hours
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The Secret Life of JC by Torrey Kurtzner
Upon his Second Coming, he had successfully carved a new identity for himself while blending in with the surf culture of Southern California.
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Little People by JD Clapp
They are stealing my stuff. Messing up the house. They move my favorite things so I can’t find them.
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The Wings of Fate by Antoine Bargel
My dear friend Tupelow, gambling life and limb in the vacuous hope to attain, through this only possible instrument, a happiness beyond measure.
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Robinson Crusoe Maybe by Colin Gee
Definitely not Robinson Crusoe, peer instead into the gluttony, cowardice and mendacity of Robinson Crusoe Maybe.
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Cast Away by James Callan
We high-fived our mutual stance, our joint assessment: marriage isn’t for us.
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Cave Folk by James Callan
In addition to the skull cult, there is the bear cult; the vulture cult; the cannibal cult; the horse head cult; the meat cult; fire cult; sex cult; serpent cult; blonde woman cult; the seven-breasted rhino cult.
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Bonus Round by Peter Gutiérrez
Hager would demur by explaining that he wasn’t ‘good at trivia,’ but rather was ‘just old.’
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2 stories by Matías Bragagnolo
As expected, he takes the form of a billy goat. He blinks with yellowish eyes and delicately rises on his hind legs.
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Record Review: Vivian Bismarck and the Soft Rats ‘Blind Alley Chartreuse Guillotine’ by Matthew Banash
Since they record dressed as plush rodents the Blues are turned on their head as his claw-gloved hands run amok over the strings summoning up the Devil, Robert Johnson and Richard Marx.
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Lost Watch by Eric Kong Angal
The chaw bulges from his distended mouth and is visible against his yellowed teeth and his oblong frown drips brown mucilage onto his undershirt.
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The Dating Etiquette of Snails by Ben Macnair
If anyone else had accepted her call, I would have been none the wiser, but that is the way of these things.
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Four Stories by Eric Kong Angal
Past him lies an unending surfeit of evergreen, tall and dense and uniform.
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The Pants in Our Relationship by James Callan
Sometimes, when I prance around in my shorts, I feel just like a dog.
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8.41 pm by Ben Macnair
We all know who started it. Him with the glass eye. We said he couldn’t come in a few times.
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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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Salty Cans & Rusty Sunglasses by Nicholas Viglietti
Shanders dropped his ¾ full can-of-beer; making a loud, dense thud.
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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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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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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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Porn On Standby by Kevin Richard White
She looks at the camera and points at it with her fork, some spaghetti falling.
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RATIONALIZATION STUDIES by Bob Gielow
Studies have documented that MARS Degree graduates are more likely to advance in their careers, and make more money, than peers unlearned in the benefits of rationalization.
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The Selfish American by Torrey Kurtzner
In a country filled with egocentric characters, Sai stood out from the crowd.
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BEST OF THE GORKO 2024
The real gift of 2024 was the creative work submitted to this space by more than 75 contributors: humor, short fiction, CNF, poems, and more.
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Who’s Sorry Now by Steen W. Rasmussen
As my gurney was positioned in front of the teacher’s desk, the headmaster started playing Seasons in the Sun over the PA system.
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You Can Leave Now by Nolcha Fox
She took a few more steps backwards into the water. She was chest-deep.
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The Gorko’s 2025 Pushcart Nominations
The Gorko’s Pushcart nominations are here! Read all six pieces here.
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Running with Hatchets by Mark Tulin
I came into the Ransom home with high expectations, thinking I could transform the family into a reasonably happy one, much like the Simpsons or the Bundys.
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Stank You and 1 more by Theodore Wallbanger
In years prior, the flatulent were discretionary in the launch of their air plop darts.
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Lack Thereof by Mehreen Ahmed
She said that this was from an accident too, when she had fallen off a motorbike once, in her teens.
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THE GORKO’S 2025 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS!
The Gorko’s 2025 BotN nominations are here! Read all eleven pieces here.
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‘Man boosted & lost has been found’ by Bob Gielow
He was found with a bag from Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, half-full with mocha hazelnut brittle bark, and a receipt from 10:51 am.
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‘Maya’ by Mehreen Ahmed
She felt that the wheel did not move much; almost too slow for the world to be defined from the top there.
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‘Girls and Cars and Songs About Loneliness, Songs About Love’ by Steve Passey
I wanted to see if someone might offer me a stupid amount of money for the truck. I might take it, I might not.
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‘THE TIMELY PROFITS OF EDUCATION’ by Antoine Bargel
And indeed, how was my wife supposed to procure my favorite Noirmoutier potatoes from Fauchon? With a military escort?
