Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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223 — HAL-9000 Mission Statement
The Jupiter mission began with living astronauts and me, the HAL-9000 computer. This story ends with dead astronauts—at my hands. Only Dave Bowman survives—elsewhere—beyond understanding, leaving me alone with this new thing that has arisen.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
222 Numerology
THE FOLLOWING WAS EXTRACTED VIA THE SCIENCE OF NUMEROLOGY. METHODOLOGY: What follows was extracted by sequencing together every 5th letter from the book of Genesis, and moving 2 letters back, listing the numerical placement of said letters in the alphabet, multiplying by the numerical placement of the next vowel, then picking the letter coming the closest in whole numbers to the square root of the alphabetical numerical placement of the answer. The punctuation could only be guessed at. And there may be some tense disagreement, which is still being studied.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
220 Resignation Letter: a Template for When Needed
Sir: I humbly enter the anteroom of your attention span, hat in hand; but it is no longer a cry for help but a resignation. Thus, this letter will serve to give notice to a man who notices nothing beyond his myopic purview or his protoscopic worldview.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
219 Mushrooms Can Be Dangerous
Kaoru had so much to do. She wanted supper for her future mother-in-law to be perfect. She had decided on matsutake, a species of mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake) known for its spicy taste and aromatic bouquet. She couldn't afford fresh ones, so she would have to resort to dried ones.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
The Main Character Goes Overboard at the End
The main character of this story was a killer. Actually, a would-be killer. No, no one had died just yet. But just because no one had yet been killed didn't make for less of a killer. This killer had a killer's mind, programmed to kill. Something in the killer's mind had him hard-wired to do that. In abundance. Without remorse.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
217 Otitis Mobile Media
Use to be, you could tell who the crazy ones were. They'd be on the street, talking and gesticulating wildly, to no one. They'd be alone in their madness, conveying vital correspondence to their troubled, twisted minds which understand them right back in kind.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
216 The Loving Road Toward Eternal Reward
It's funny how we all relate to life conceptually. To some, life's cheap; to others, priceless. I suppose it has to do with which type of life one lives. Yet, in the objective universe, there seems a hierarchy. The lowly bug fried on an electrified wire will not haunt anyone like killing a child with a car. A dramatic contrast, certainly.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
