Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

874 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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263 Assassins' Academy
At the Squeaky Fromme School of Assassins, today was our Final Exam. I was just one test away from getting my double-aught degree, my 00º.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
262 — Fool Me Once...
"Bit of a problem," the Acquisition Archangel reported to the Chief Salvation Officer. "What might that be?" the CSO asked the Acq'Angel.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
261 — Psychosclerosis: Traditional Folk Disease Officially Recognized
There's a common condition, a scourge shunned for far too long, that's been called the "hidden affliction." Raging across all demographics, every race, across genders, and even extending vertically through generations, it's seldom referenced until recognized and called out—typically—rudely, in a vocal identification nothing short of overt invective.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
260 — Go with the Flow
Osborne Reynolds, the Ninteenth Century scientist, lived his life in turbulence. His "number," i.e., the "Reynolds Number," is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces within a fluid subjected to different fluid velocities.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
259 Pressing Proposal
"Mary Claire, please listen carefully." He spoke deliberately. He had her attention. He took her by the hand, pressing it lovingly.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
258 Smarmy Smorzando
Smarmy Smorzando was a woman to be reckoned with. Her hair was dutifully coiffed daily just so recherché. Her clothes--always--were impeccably, fashionably, admirably haute. She was a bon vivant, vivisecting a ne'er-do-well of derring-do.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Everyman on the Everybus
Maxie was a New England working girl, living paycheck to paycheck. Things were tight and sometimes a little too close for comfort, but she made it work. She was average but well-kept. She was personable but gullible.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
257 — Remember Back in the Eighties?
Every day in the Eighties, now looking back at those years, was a lifetime of sheer joy. Before the world changed for the worse.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
256 — "CME'arth," Germ of an Idea for a SciFi Novel
BACKGROUND To orbit Earth, an object must attain "orbital velocity," approximately 17,500 mph. This speed balances the gravitational pull from the Earth with the object's forward motion.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
255 Peanut Butter and Jealousy: Lunchables 13, 1-16
"For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord...is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14). "Psychiatrists say that people who eat peanut butter sandwiches are lonely...And when you're really lonely, the peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth." (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Dominos
The world is black and white-washed, I say (can you see?). Oh, say, José? Here, here! Where, where! Why there; but why, there? Black monolithic thoughts all lined up, ready to fall to a conclusion.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
254 — In Search of the Cringe
What—exactly—makes something cringe-worthy? What is it about something that tends to make a human being cringe? It seems cringing is a uniquely human trait, like music, laughter, or applying for a mortgage.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction