Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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January 4: World Braille Day DISCLAIMER: I was born without the wherewithal to write this. Born three months premature, I required oxygen support for four months thereafter. My retinas detached, as they are prone to do when greedy and adventurous retinal blood vessels are gifted extra oxygen.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
The Rub: To sleep — Perchance to Dream
January 3 is a day to commemorate the Festival of Sleep Time for bed: bed time. One ticket for the Mattress Ball. Thad's satiety has been achieved, his hunger sated, and his day's goings-on were now gone-on and, it seemed, stood complete. As the human animal, Thad lay in state, at peace, hypnogoguic in pleasant reverie, and would fall into the somnolence arising within him.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Versions of Introversion
JANUARY 2, WORLD INTROVERT DAY For too long he blended into the background. He remained merely at his steady state — his most stable, constant, regular, even, uniform, unchanging, unvarying, unwavering, unfluctuating, invariant, and unbroken energy stratum of inadventurous venturism.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
COVID-19
You get COVID-19, you get sick, maybe go to the hospital, get over it, and it's history. Is it? The hard truth is that we know almost nothing about this virus. The book of symptoms is growing as rapidly as an urban dictionary. Your lungs at risk, only? Think again. We're beginning to appreciate that this virus affects us at multiple levels, i.e., total body, organ, tissue, and even at the cellular/molecular levels:
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in FYI
Chain of Fools. Top Story - December 2023.
The poor thing was so very dead. She was Ms. Abigail Lawless, her real name. When she was alive, just recently, as it turns out, she used to always emphasize the trailing /z/ in "Ms." to fiercely emphasize that she wasn't married or, as she would point out, was no longer married.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
