Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

866 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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283 It Finally Happened
And so human civilization so changed the Earth such that climate change became the least of its worries. The magma slurry at Earth's center, rumored to be the site of the mythical Hell, slowed. Earth's core cooled.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
282 Modern Miracles
1824 is interesting in southern America. Before Eli Whitney and his 1793 invention, the cotton gin, it took one slave 10 hours to de-seed one pound of cotton. The cotton gin, even as a hand-cranked machine, could separate 50 times as much.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
281 Hypnotic Writing
I want you to read this very carefully. But as you see the words, mentally address each syllable and phoneme; run a Braille finger along them for your, otherwise blind, mind's eye.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
280 Misplaced Anger
I'm a knee-jerk jerk whose effect lashes out due to cause. Or...for a cause. I'm angry. I break, belittle, shatter, and ruin before I feel better about myself. It takes little thought. Effect engenders affect. The perception is the message.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
279 The Fog: Adventures in COVIDism
It all started with my creepy flesh. My entire body, or rather, the covering of my entire body, became hypersensitive to touch. Light touch hurt badly. Harder touch, strangely, not so much.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
278 Terraforming Mars — Part 2
DIARY ENTRY SOL 4,155 Seismology from the moons’ impacts established what extremes that could be withstood should something bigger wander into Mars’ orbit. This was prudent, considering what goes whizzing by in the next outer orbit around the Sun.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
277 The Struggle
The fear, the scream, the struggle, the shock... The fear, the scream, the struggle, the shock... --"The Struggle" by Scroobius Pip
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
276 The Struggles Behind Closed Doors. Top Story - October 2024.
There appears to have been a struggle. Something violent. Something had finally snapped. Something terrible. It must have been quite the commotion, but the sound clatter was over. The strikes and blows were over now.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
275 G.O.D.
Everyone talks about the "good ol' days." The good ol' days seems to be the stuff of fantasies and fond reminiscences. They were a time when all was well, life was good, and the air was sweet. They were good! They were ol'! They were the days!
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
274 Vacancy
Demonous summoned his demon-apprentice, a demon-in-training waited for what seemed like an eternity. "We've a vacancy," Demonous, a Hellion Vera ("HV"), announced. (Only Hellions Verae were allowed to assign demons-in-training.)
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Breaking News
What we're about to show may be too intense for younger viewers. The story you're about to hear is disturbing. Only here will you find it—we're the first to sniff out this important story.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
Talk About Bad Taste!
Something here—fould, putrid, dead—sure stinks. Something scary is gonna jump in front of me. Something will make my hairs stand on end.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets