Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

866 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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Active Shooter on Campus
The young man was sitting at his computer at class in his university, doing course work, when he thought he heard shots. He left the room and ran down the hallway to the wall phones. He dialed 9-1-1.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
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My life is an ellipsis... I can't make a complete statement, pose a reasonable question, or even serve my sentence. For those, you need verbs. I lack verbs.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
The New Hampshire Primary of 2024
It was a dark and stormy night, Windblown and stinging, icy, Populated by the noisy, Spreading oratory disease and vitriol,
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Dante's Oblio
Oblivion is an eternal state of lack of awareness thought by some to occur after death. This idea contradicts beliefs that there is an afterlife, such as a Heaven or Hell, after death. Limbo, in Catholic theology, was believed to be neither, for those souls who died without Baptism. Although not condemned to punishment, they were, by dogma, deprived of admittance into eternal happiness with God (in Paradise). If this were really the Church's position, there would remain one of the black eyes on Catholicism, necessary to be overturned by a theology centered on an all-loving and just God.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Superhero to Somebody
I cannot see through walls. I'm no superhero, supervillain, or superanything. I can't bend space-time or invoke magic. I'm no speedster, scarlet or otherwise.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
From A to Zipper
A Body's Covetousness Doesn't Evade Friends. . Gruesome, How It's Jealousy Keeping Lovers Malfunctioning — Not
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
My Life as Cliché
I've always toed the line. Kept my nose clean. Been on the up-and-up. Yep, I always kept it together. So when she said, "I love you," I figured what was good for the goose was good for the gander. I was happy as white on rice. I was head-over-heels for, and madly in love with, her. Me an' my gal. We'd make a good team.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Let It Snow Let It Snow
There it was, the cozy, small, red-roofed cottage nestled so peacefully in the fallen snow. The atmosphere was as thick as gelatin, and the stillness of the scene suggested all was well — that all within the cottage were happy and content. Fine just staying put in their little winter paradise.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
You Read What You Sow
A gardener surveyed his field and saw his crops languishing. His field was an open book, with what he had nourished and cultivated presenting as a library of sorts that held his life's work. But it had not rained for the longest time. He fretted.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Dancing During War and Love. Top Story - January 2024.
I chose something smaller — The point of a pin, Not its head. . I do my jig upon it — My dance of life And avoid my Achilles' heel.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Orthography For All Intensive Porpoises
A dyslexic orthographer once wrote, "Beware the allegory moat: It opens its jars And creeps into yaws Like some poison needing an anecdote."
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
They Come in 3s: Part 3
Epiphany, first: Being alive as its own reward. My miracle, self-actuation of self-awareness. Epiphany, second: Sorting out the perspective of the truly important things in life. My miracle, forgiveness.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction