Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

869 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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The Ninth and Final Hole
I began with nine obvious holes in me Nine liaisons with the universe I hope to leave humanity With no more, in my hearse
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
214 Your Supervisor, Please
He didn't like the priest's penance given him. "Can I speak to your supervisor?" He waited. A man in a purple cap excused the priest, opening the sliding window.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
213 The Night Elvis Left the Building
"Elvis," she announced. "His name's Elvis." "Is that what his tag said?" I asked. "No, just the name I gave him." "You mean...just now?"
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
212 — The Day I Was Allowed to Divide by Zero
Space-time ripples ebb and flow, riding gravitational waves. Right angles egress momenta at the speed of light, deviating without losing energy. But not all right angles are congruent. They're simply right-angled to their original trajectory.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
211 — Eve: Setting the Record Straight
The "Original Sinner," Eve, mother of the human race, has been vilified as the ruin of everyone. Before falling for a serpent's deceits, life was perfect. The climate was temperate enough for unapologetic nudity. There were no issues. No tigers conspired to devour them. No fruit unreachable for Eve. No bugs bit or stung. Life was sweet.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
The Case for Multiculturism
Government and art. These are two general things that separate human society from the lower animal world. We try to govern ourselves and we make art, both served by the currency of both, language.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Journal
210 — Declaration of Co-Dependence
When in the Course of human events, our wedding being a big, expensive one, it becomes necessary to dissolve our wedding bands connecting us, and to assume the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and God entitle me, I should declare the causes which impel us to the separation.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
The Baptism of Judas Iscariot
We all reached over to help Jesus into the boat, just as a large wave rocked the vessel. “Please, Jesus,” Judas pleaded.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
209 Anatomy of a Murder
"Strip," she instructed, adding to the terror from her gun. In the dead of night, she led him at gunpoint to the hospital morgue. The dark morgue corridor was the perfect backdrop for her self-righteous and gender-affirming vengeance.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
208 Topic 14
Some topics are designated "need to know." Those who need to know know who they are. While it ain't me, still, I do know. I figured it all out.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
A CONSPIRACY OF PRICKS
An industrial-strength thumbtack surprise Rises a full inch above its thumb-press head On a chair seat of such nefarious devise–
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
207 Blind-Sided in Brown's Hole, Wyoming
The Kid. His reputation preceded him. Nefarious train robberies, bank heists, and gunslinger shootouts put him on posters throughout the West in the summer of 1822.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction