Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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291 The Evil Schirff Twins' Show-n'-Tell
Their teacher was "Ol' Lady Thompson"' because the children named everything. They referred to the principal as "Dodgy" Rodriquez. The cafeteria workers were the "Vomiteers." So it was no wonder that they called the twin Schirff children, Tré and Terrez, a boy and girl, the "Evil Schirff Twins."
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
290 By Invitation Only
"DO NOT ENTER." Sean wondered what lay behind the door but obeyed the sign. Yet, how would he gain entrance if the only door remained fast? The door: caulked, painted over, nailed shut. Likewise, the one he had entered through was hermetically sealed and decidedly one-way.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
289 The Caterwaul
Cassie was a skilled nursing facility nurse caring for those patients trapped, fully alert, within catatonic bodies. "A stroke can cause a consciousness to be 'locked -in,'" Cassie told Blake, the medical student. "We watch for them to communicate with subtle eye movements."
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
285 Terraforming Mars — Part 3
DIARY ENTRY SOL 22,031 The living, dangerous ferropods were an astonishing surprise setting the Mars program back six Earth years. A half-centimeter in diameter, these nearly perfectly round structures, made of primarily iron in an alloy mixture of silicon, zinc, and a hundred other trace elements, were a presumed natural resource used wherever ball bearings were needed in the colony. They were perfect as far as I was concerned.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Tornado
The finger of God Cyclonic retribution Summons me to Him
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
