Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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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
269 All That Glittered, Glitters On
Every piece of jewelry tells a story. Nowhere is this truer than with estate jewelry. I recently bought my wife a "mourning" bracelet. For those unfamiliar, this type of jewelry's history is long, going back to the 16th Century and becoming popular in the 19th Century, especially in the Georgian era (1714–1837). The earliest types included macabre death-like symbols according to the traditional adage, memento mori ("Remember, we all die"). Queen Victoria, after Prince Albert died in 1861, mourned his death for 40 years. This made black jewelry fashionable in the Victorian era.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
