Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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Death of the New Me. Top Story - February 2025.
I had a dream that I had one week to live. Yes, dreams are misfiring of neurochemicals in a brain that are otherwise supervised by those upper lobes we’ve evolved to suppress them—at least during the waking hours. But sleep opens the gates. Specifically, the sodium gates that evoke action potentials and synapses, flooding neuroreceptors who won’t even see them coming.
By Gerard DiLeo12 months ago in Fiction
Merry Christmas, Nemo
The Cyclops looked for his men, but they were nowhere to be found. “Nemo!” the monster called out to Odysseus from his cave. “I’ll catch all of you, Greeks.”
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Slippery Slope
Uncertainty is frictionless And frigid; I slide uncertain, Unstuck to the ground, Conductive, ungrounded, Precipitate, and rushed—
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
To Hell
You fall into recesses Of your self-injurious mind Head-over-heels, self-loathing for what? Again You've a hand encumbered With the grasp I engage To hold you just short of Hell
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
Love
Engrams imprint While heartaches splint Away the world, cruelly engaging Mating with souls Will self-extoll As a world is so cruelly waging
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
Hansel and Gretel and Hansel and Gretel
Twice upon a time, a poor woodcutter's first of two wives had two sets of identical twins. First came Hansel and Hansel. One Hansel was named after the poor woodcutter's father, Hansel; the other Hansel was named after the poor woodcutter's grandfather, Hansel.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Black Magic
There is no magic in life, only its majesty. Our world is in place—causes arising that evoke effects—and everything follows the rules. Wishes don't come true, but the future does, after the present briefly snaps away from it.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Photography
Maquillage. Runner-Up in The Moment That Changed Everything Challenge. Top Story - January 2025.
He sat in the Oval Office. He heard the commotion of cameras mounting, tripod adjustments, and audio checks in the adjacent room. He had with him his three advisors who continued to advise, but he was conflicted about the advice.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in The Swamp
Sango Jingo vs France
In the 1980s (yeah, I was alive then) I invented my own constructed language ("conlang"), complete with grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. The Internet was new, and I believed making a de novo language to be a unique and clever way to see how it might evolve on a global scale.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Writers
369 — Immortals and Gnats and Assholes
There are irritating gnats about as I push my cart along the aisles and politely excuse myself to the immortal souls as I navigate their traffic. The immortal souls I pass have their own carts, too, and I see that they are in varied states of filling.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
368 Unfinished Business
It was true that Bailey Batt, my best friend, had ruined my life. He had seduced my fiancée whom I had been with for seven years. In less than three months they were married.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
367 — Done Deal
He wanted another chance. His nemesis was always willing to accommodate—for another soul. In exchange for yet another soul, always, another chance.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction