Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

870 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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267 The Flop
I was all in. My first professional poker tournament, and it was being televised. How lazy must that be, I thought, for someone to watch other guys play cards.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Sympathetic & Parasympathetic
My eyes dilate to accommodate the danger As high pitches screech the chalkboard of mammalian warning Something's rotten about—undulating waves of smell
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
266 False Dawn. Top Story - September 2024.
And then it dawned on him. How he had wasted his life, selling drugs. Getting busted. Pleading guilty for a reduced 5-year sentence. Incarceration. Five years of waste.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Senseless
A look into my funhouse mirror Fastforwarding my audio into high-chirped gibberish A smell chases after me, so I rewind and review
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
Sorting Out the Data
My mind's eye renders a special vision, panoramic, capturing the whole of the visible world And sounds with the timbre of Gideon's 300 trumpets, sending our naysayers to the limits of Abel Meholah
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
265 In Bed: a One-Act Play of Fortune and Misfortune
Characters: Marie and her date, Tyler; it was only their second date. Teresa and her fiancé, Anton. Carly and me (Mitch), her husband.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
M'ass Destruction
I'll set in motion the machinations of mass destruction. Carnage thrills me not with the body count, but with the abruptness for which it changes lives. Lives cut short leave blank pages in the incomplete stories of the victims' lives.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
264 — The Wo-Men: In Touch With Your Feminine Side?
I take my evolution seriously, because evolution is serious business. But that doesn't mean the mysterious—but true—biology I explain here isn't funny. Is it the funniest? Hmm... Is it?
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
263 Assassins' Academy
At the Squeaky Fromme School of Assassins, today was our Final Exam. I was just one test away from getting my double-aught degree, my 00º.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
262 — Fool Me Once...
"Bit of a problem," the Acquisition Archangel reported to the Chief Salvation Officer. "What might that be?" the CSO asked the Acq'Angel.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
261 — Psychosclerosis: Traditional Folk Disease Officially Recognized
There's a common condition, a scourge shunned for far too long, that's been called the "hidden affliction." Raging across all demographics, every race, across genders, and even extending vertically through generations, it's seldom referenced until recognized and called out—typically—rudely, in a vocal identification nothing short of overt invective.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
260 — Go with the Flow
Osborne Reynolds, the Ninteenth Century scientist, lived his life in turbulence. His "number," i.e., the "Reynolds Number," is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces within a fluid subjected to different fluid velocities.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction