Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

866 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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142 Too Many Ease
Not only are there more fish in the sea, but there are more fishes in the sea. For example, there are all of the cartilaginous fishes. And all the big fish in all those small ponds.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Forsaking Limericks for Ballads — getting away from the AABBA
That limerick of the week I'm to write Should not be so unique it's alright That it comes later than Every seven days can
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
141 The Persistence of Memory
His love, outside of time, beyond the illusion of forever, was immemorial as it was eternal. Long before the human genome had been discovered and deciphered in cold, impersonal laboratories, his epigenetics had been warmly at work, laying down inheritable sentiments for his progeny. He built up a latticework of devotion to her where natural selection had no relevance.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Simple Arithmetic — Complicated. Content Warning.
Fertilization, in vitro Was our last chance To reproduce sans libido Or passion, or romance . Technology overshot When we sono-confirmed
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Fit Enough?
Deoxyribo- (Am-I-really-the-fittest)- Nucleic acid ______ [Extra statutory words]
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
140 Minutes of the Secret Society of Secrets Appraisal-for-Secrets-Release Society — Part 2
Now, the Minutes from last meeting of the Secret Society of Secrets-Appraisal-for-Secrets-Release Society, SSSASRS or, "Scissors."
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
139 Minutes of the Secret Society of Secrets-Appraisal-for-Secrets-Release Society — Part 1
Thank you, everyone, for attending this week's meeting of the Secret Society of Secrets-Appraisal-for-Secrets-Release Society — the SSSASRS, or as it's quaintly pronounced, "Scissors."
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
138 — Electrostatic Arrogance
There is a Limbo, despite its ecclesiastical decommission. It persists. There's a place for everything, and Limbo still serves a purpose.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
When Natural Selection Flaunts
Selectivity Overspecialization Overachievement --- To meet challenge co-entered by me and Paul.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Sylvester's Luck
Velociraptor Plus hundreds of millions' years Makes a Tweety Bird
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
137 Yes Things and No Things
Yes, things were important to him, but she tired of being his sweet, young thing. He admired things for their beauty, and he admired his fourth wife for hers, but not much else.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Plainer in a Plane Land
Poly lived happily in a 2-D world, her plane of life determined by three points: herself; her husband, Quad; and her little boy polygon, Trap. They were plain people living the plane life.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction