Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo
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82 Tail Wagging the Clown
"Would you like some candy, little girl? It's freeeeeeeeee!" Well versed in "stranger-danger," Macie was still caught off-guard by the one offering: a clown. An evil clown. The type of clown that makes the whole world ask, Who thought children would ever like clowns?
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
81. Testicles at Half-Mast
"Strip and raise your testicles, inmate!" Stupid, uneducated. Angry-at-their-own-lives "correction" officers were either bullied as children or were the bullies. These Plan B humans are in charge of me now. They are angrier and more incorrect than the angry people they're correcting.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Something From Nothing
I wasn't anything. I was nothing. I started out with nothing, and anything that accrued was summarily cancelled by an equal and opposite removal of everything, making me a zero. Yet, if I walked three steps forward, I moved only 2.999 steps backward.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
77 Digital Message in an Analog World
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been.'" — John Greenleaf Whittier, 1854 They had me and they knew it. Time to pay the piper. Time to pay Paul; Peter's robbery now irrelevant. My lesson: spend their money and don't pay them back--lose a finger. Or more.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
