Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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Love
Engrams imprint While heartaches splint Away the world, cruelly engaging Mating with souls Will self-extoll As a world is so cruelly waging
By Gerard DiLeo12 months ago in Poets
Hansel and Gretel and Hansel and Gretel
Twice upon a time, a poor woodcutter's first of two wives had two sets of identical twins. First came Hansel and Hansel. One Hansel was named after the poor woodcutter's father, Hansel; the other Hansel was named after the poor woodcutter's grandfather, Hansel.
By Gerard DiLeo12 months ago in Fiction
Black Magic
There is no magic in life, only its majesty. Our world is in place—causes arising that evoke effects—and everything follows the rules. Wishes don't come true, but the future does, after the present briefly snaps away from it.
By Gerard DiLeo12 months ago in Photography
Maquillage. Runner-Up in The Moment That Changed Everything Challenge. Top Story - January 2025.
He sat in the Oval Office. He heard the commotion of cameras mounting, tripod adjustments, and audio checks in the adjacent room. He had with him his three advisors who continued to advise, but he was conflicted about the advice.
By Gerard DiLeo12 months ago in The Swamp
Sango Jingo vs France
In the 1980s (yeah, I was alive then) I invented my own constructed language ("conlang"), complete with grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. The Internet was new, and I believed making a de novo language to be a unique and clever way to see how it might evolve on a global scale.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Writers
369 — Immortals and Gnats and Assholes
There are irritating gnats about as I push my cart along the aisles and politely excuse myself to the immortal souls as I navigate their traffic. The immortal souls I pass have their own carts, too, and I see that they are in varied states of filling.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
368 Unfinished Business
It was true that Bailey Batt, my best friend, had ruined my life. He had seduced my fiancée whom I had been with for seven years. In less than three months they were married.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
367 — Done Deal
He wanted another chance. His nemesis was always willing to accommodate—for another soul. In exchange for yet another soul, always, another chance.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
366 Finality Finally
Today, this Story-a-Day-challenge leaps to my 366th offering. At midnight tonight the clock resets back to 1, and day 366 is just hindsight.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
365 Writing Strips One Bare. Top Story - December 2024.
She hadn't married him for looks, because he was most unsightly. She married him for his brain. Theirs was a marriage that was the opposite of the cautionary tale of those who marry their "one true" trophies for looks.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
364 The Whole Universe Is Against Me
Byron Masters discovered the threshold of synapse interaction that determined self-awareness. His "Masters' Threshold" of S = f (D/m3) Nx 2.56P, still unpublished, also proved the connections needn't be neurons—one example being trees, sustained by the "S" of the fungi interconnecting them.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
363 Swingers
This swing set popular in Owensboro, Kentucky—with 5 swings. The playground being busy, there was never an empty seat. Quintets of children re-cycled, the asynchrony of the swing arcs keeping its solid wood feet firmly planted, complementing the prudent anchor bolts rooted into the dirt.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction