Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

874 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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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
273 We All Come in Threes
Present me, young me, and old me walked into a bar. "What'll y'all have," Sal, the bartender, asked. "I'll have what he's having," I said, referring to old me.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
272 — The Time I Put My Lab-Grown Black Hole in the Microwave
Imagine my excitement when I created an actual black hole. A real lab grown, quantum-entangled, tesseract'ual, data-consuming black hole.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
271 Terraforming Mars — Part 1
DIARY ENTRY SOL 4,100 My ears still ring. Phobos and Deimos were scheduled for euthanasia, nudged below Roche limit, to be shot into the planet. For the few colonists here who would witness what normally would be an extinction event, it was a dramatic test for the PoroCement that housed us, observers huddled in utero.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
270 Anonymunity
Time again. The PSAs said so. Having dodged the COVID and flu bullets the previous year, I wondered if it was because of my immunizations. The literature says it prevents a percentage of infections. Was I just lucky? Had the shots really protected me from these infections?
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction