Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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329 DRUG LORDS™—We Take Drugs Pretty Seriously. Top Story - November 2024.
We take drugs pretty seriously here...at...DRUG LORDS PHARMACY™ Drug Lords™, your full-service pharmacy for when you're ready to take drugs seriously. We have all the products others decline to carry. We don't mind the extra scrutiny from regulatory agencies. DEA? We play golf with 'em. FDA? They owe us money! Local police? You kidding?
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
328 Spiritual Inertia
I was standing in a resting train, which is ironic, as I was on-board for my final rest. I was alone in the railroad car, untethered to life, no wrist strap from which to secure myself. Since "you can't take it with you," I wasn't holding on to anything.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
327 Terraforming Mars: Part 9
The gravitational tugs and tidal forces on Mars’ convective 2000-km silicate mantle and 30- to 100-km crust generated heat. The iron-sulfur and iron-silicon core, which had substantially cooled over the previous three billion years, rekindled.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
326 PsyLo: Part 6
The label, "survivor," is relative. Three centuries after Yesterwar, who was more the survivor? Was it the organized, somewhat fanatical group who chose to survive, on the front end, by retreating from the fallout, death, and disease, incarcerating themselves in a subterranean tube, waiting patiently—at the mercy of a begrudged planet that took its time scrubbing down its air, land, and sea?
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
325 PsyLo: Part 5
"That's what the red screen is for," argued the Society Curator of SILO. "To keep us from blundering. We are all safe in SILO, after all. Our experiment was a success. And it is sustainable, despite the population advisories that were necessary for the last two generations."
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
I'm Overwhelmed
Sure, I can do that. That's what I said to myself when the 2024 Story-a-Day Challenge was launched. It seemed easy at first. All I had to do was relax and fetch one of the zillion ideas drifting through my imagination. Flotsam that had build up in my writer's mind faster than space debris in near-Earth orbit.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Writers
322 PsyLo: Part 2
"Still not safe," said the Curator. For 300 years, the Curator had been part of a nepotistic reality in SILO. Nepotism was the tradition and, in three centuries, each Curator had been an exemplar of wisdom, planning, and cleverness. The people of SILO had never had reason to challenge patriarchy, by which system their civilization ran.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
