Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

866 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/

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Roulette
I spied on him through the glass. I could see how unhappy he was. How utterly depressed he was. I could see his hopelessness. I know that look, I thought. How it felt when your body seems to be doing things at the direction of some deeper, more primitive desperation. I found his despair fascinating.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Forever Lost
You can't get there from here You can't return here from there Retrace your steps and you'll fear You can't be anywhere, ne'er
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Horror
My Favorite Places
On the First day Wherever we are, The only place there is, as Mystic as Frisland . On the Second Day The world collapses
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Swingers
Hanging seat set in motion By gravity, in flux Sinusoidal devotion In arcuate redux . We're beasts riding waves That oscillate repetitively
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
An Effective Decay Preventive Dentifrice
Each of my teeth Is hanging by a thread On top and underneath Each is dangling from my head . When windy they tintinnabulate
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Ants and Anti-Christs
Anti-Christs crawl among us Forsoothing parables Performing anti-miracles For the ants on our mound . Collecting the dead
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
The Butterfly Effect
The real story behind the butterfly effect was about a meteorologist, Edward Lorenz. (https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200301/history.cfm)
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in History
Organ Rebellion
This All Hollows' Eve The organs will speak again Making statements how they grieve For those donating them *** They volunteered, not, to abdicate
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Residrool
We've all done it. Spit happens. We fall asleep and there it is. A mouth slightly ajar (no pun intended) releases a little spillover of saliva for us to discover on the pillow, with some embarrassment. However, my most notorious episodes of residrool were in the classroom, not in bed.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Technopause
Always on the cusp, after buying my first computer, a 4-megahertz "screamer," I read the entire DOS book. My MHz were eventually replaced by GHz, a thousand times faster. Over the years I kept up with Moore's law.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Boddobing, Boddobang, Boddobung
Boddobing. On the island of Sango Jingo, they speak Dilingo. It is unique in linguistics, using what are called vowel movements to alter meaning. One particularly motif covers the exchange of greetings:
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Microcytic
Vampire sees me I'm so humiliated I am anemic
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets