Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/
My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo
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167 Rite of Passage — PART 3: EPILOGUE
When scientists warned of the comet that would end the world, money became worthless. It made no sense to quit smoking or drinking, continue gym memberships, or eat right. First the barrooms emptied into the churches but, finally, the churches emptied into bars.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
166 Rite of Passage PART 2
The Doomsday Comet, our own epoch's extinction event, was expected to slam into the Pacific Ocean and send walls of shock, conflagration, and finally continents of water to purify, purge, and wash away--in serial waves--the human race and all evidence we had ever been.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
163 Life Above 5-Foot-Four
He didn't quite know she was dying, for that meant grasping one's place in the universe. Yet, he knew there was something wrong. He could smell it in that amazing chemistry lab known as a dog's nose. He could smell it through her abdomen, through her clothes, and even apart from the other smells that gave him the news of the neighborhood.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
