Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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I want to halve my cake and eat it, two For twice as much makes it seem more, too And less than half means, want more, to
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Adrenal Insufficiency
The following micro fiction was written in response to the Mother Combs Campfire Challenge. Write a horror story within 75 - 250 words. You can find all the details here.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Limerick of the Week:
There once was a nearsighted prostitute Who sought her house of ill-repute But she walked into a warehouse Instead of the whorehouse
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Alienation
I expected it — I was notified I accepted it — aware and clear-eyed Therefrom came the scheduled rendezvous My Star Caller, punctual, followed through
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
S'him/S'her/Them
First there were the antitestosterone diuretics Then came the estrogenic hormones Next came decisiveness, incisiveness, incisional--castration
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Limerick(s) of the Week
Awash in acetaldehyde From fermented spirits imbibed My vasopressin's crashed And I'm quite unabashed To piss life away bleary-eyed
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Tracing in the Dark
A fine white ribbon unravels Follows the curves of a woman Defines her sultry shape Without revealing any real anatomy ***
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Supranatural Mischief
I donned asbestos gloves Picked up ball lightening Hurled it down from the Heavens Pins fell like people *** I ionized the Borealis
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
The Half-Fast Horse You Rode In On. Content Warning.
The semi-amassed are half-assed They can only walk half-fast You believe they pass you by But their strides are not that high
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Communiqué
Her smile ignores optics A visual for only my mind's eye A direct message sidesteps synaptics A communiqué to amplify Elsewhere
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Anatomy of a Murder. Top Story - September 2023.
"Now, take off all of your clothes," she instructed her victim, one of the few uncomfortable phrases that could supersede even his terror of her gun aimed at him.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Horror
Termination
I'm up on the tight wire One side's ice and one is fire One side's hate and one is hope — Leon Russell *** PART ONE The world was flat. This was intuitive. It was obvious. No one fell off. No one ever had.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction