Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

874 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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The Fall
From the open sky Fell the angels, pushed by pride, Landing hard on us
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
287 The Worst Man in the World
Carlin knew he couldn't be the worst man in the world. When you are the worst man in the world, you'd just know it. How could you not?
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
286 The Greatest Man in the World
Colin stood as the greatest man in the world. He knew it. When you are the greatest man in the world, how could you not? He was young, strong, and handsome—the world, his oyster.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
By Invitation Only
There was only one rule: don’t open the door. Sean wondered what lay behind the door but obeyed the rule. Yet, how would he gain entrance if the only door remained fast? The door: caulked, painted over, nailed shut.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
285 Terraforming Mars — Part 3
DIARY ENTRY SOL 22,031 The living, dangerous ferropods were an astonishing surprise setting the Mars program back six Earth years. A half-centimeter in diameter, these nearly perfectly round structures, made of primarily iron in an alloy mixture of silicon, zinc, and a hundred other trace elements, were a presumed natural resource used wherever ball bearings were needed in the colony. They were perfect as far as I was concerned.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Tornado
The finger of God Cyclonic retribution Summons me to Him
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
The Sky Opened
Four horsemen above With seven seals awaiting Need my umbrella
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
284 Going Ballistic
He felt downright giddy. His parents had never left him alone in the house before. He was eight, and they had hesitated. They were only going to be gone a few minutes, however.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
283 It Finally Happened
And so human civilization so changed the Earth such that climate change became the least of its worries. The magma slurry at Earth's center, rumored to be the site of the mythical Hell, slowed. Earth's core cooled.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
282 Modern Miracles
1824 is interesting in southern America. Before Eli Whitney and his 1793 invention, the cotton gin, it took one slave 10 hours to de-seed one pound of cotton. The cotton gin, even as a hand-cranked machine, could separate 50 times as much.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
281 Hypnotic Writing
I want you to read this very carefully. But as you see the words, mentally address each syllable and phoneme; run a Braille finger along them for your, otherwise blind, mind's eye.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
280 Misplaced Anger
I'm a knee-jerk jerk whose effect lashes out due to cause. Or...for a cause. I'm angry. I break, belittle, shatter, and ruin before I feel better about myself. It takes little thought. Effect engenders affect. The perception is the message.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction