Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/
My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo
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When True North Fails. Honorable Mention in Everything Looks Better From Far Away Challenge. Top Story - August 2025.
1101 North Highland Street. A nice place, briefly. It was only a month before everything went wacky and began breaking. The AC failed. Pipes burst behind walls. The basement flooded. Our Internet went offline. HomeShield Insurance Company dropped us. It was as if some cosmic anomaly of evil plasma had settled onto the realty, altering the reality—of rules and commonsense observation—down to the atoms.
By Gerard DiLeo6 months ago in Fiction
Codependent Clauses. Honorable Mention in Somewhere Between Here and There Challenge. Top Story - July 2025.
From here to there, the subject and verb Seek to complete an action in thought Of object, direct, or nothing disturbed The commas will rule when festooning what's wrought
By Gerard DiLeo7 months ago in Poets
Paingod
After I had my staging surgery for my suspected lymphoma, in the recovery area I asked the anesthetist about how my depth of anesthesia was monitored. I was concerned because I remember awakening during the procedure. It wasn't painful, despite my abdomen being open, but I do remember the OR personnel talking.
By Gerard DiLeo8 months ago in Fiction
Notice
Sir(e): Allow me to introduce myself, which invokes a great irony: that someone you hired yourself and then continuously employed for eight years should need no introduction. One would think. In fact, my name should go without saying. And to that, you remain self-honest in that you don't remember, let alone say, my name. So I put my thoughts herein, in writing.
By Gerard DiLeo9 months ago in Journal
