Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

866 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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Misplaced Anger
I've never been a great thinker. I've always been more of a reactor. Perhaps even a hyperreactor. I'm a knee-jerk jerk whose effect lashes out due to cause. Or even... for a cause.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Grief Unbearable
Forsaken, I stand naked and alone A singular point on the number line Ill winds from aft force me whither unknown Subtraction will kill with a minus sign.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Ices
A man in midlife crises Gave in to all his vices When his wife and kids were gone He subscribed to all his porn When left to his own devices
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Victory Was Ours
Today, January 17, he took inventory. He did this every year. His Chief Officer had cancelled his appointments. He slept in, but finally got out of bed for coffee, leaving his wife on her side of the bed.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
National Without a Scalpel Day
On January 16, 1964, the specialty of interventional radiology and, by association, minimally invasive surgery, was created when an angioplasty performed by Dr. Charles Dotter resulted in a Band-Aid instead of a possible amputation. Today, hysterectomies are removed through the navel and gallbladders by robots.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Insufficient Funds
The Man reported to work every day, punctually and dutifully. As the Worthless Check Constable for the state, it was his duty to recommend for prosecution those who would purposely write bad checks. Justice isn't bankrupt, after all.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Down to Earth
For the challenge by MacKenzie Davis, https://shopping-feedback.today/writers/official-unofficial-ekphrastic-challenge-rules by MacKenzie Davis,
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Festum Asinorum
In Christianity, January 14 is Festum Asinorum, or "Feast of the Ass." In France it is known as the Fête de l'âne, which has morphed to that from the Feast of Fools. The Christian connection to this celebration is the ass, itself, a donkey used by the holy family to leave Egypt.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Creation and Elation
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of the void but out of chaos." — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice, With a Pinch of Ginger
January 12 is National Kiss a Ginger Day. Red is the color of fire, and I wear my hair wild, as a warning: Not too close or you could get burned.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Two Points of View
POINT OF VIEW THE FIRST: My chow-chow dog, Bonzo, was mesmerized by what I was doing, as he was for all my human activities. I tended the pit, stoking the coals. He barked as each additional guest arrived.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Mr. Right
She was beside herself. Her conduits between her left brain and right brain were faltering. She planned her day with her left brain, but her right brain decided to sleep in. Some time after, she had managed to drive to the mall, albeit with many left turns at no-left-turn corners.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction