Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

870 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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346 Family Matters
Jeffrey was waiting, like every year. He re-remembered the shuffling down the chimney, the Ho-Ho-Ho; hooves scratching the roof. And like every Christmas morning, Santa continued where he had left off.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
345 A Christmas Quantum, Part 2: the Ghost of Christmas “Isn't”
So, it seemed, I lay in superposition, where I'd either decayed or didn't. In my very cool casket made of cherry wood. It also seemed...this box was made for opening, whereupon the observer would then know which.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Keeping X in my Xmas
X is the missing Ex- Who is absent and withdrawn Creating the vacuum Wherefrom reality's torn. . Y must the cold ensue
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
344 A Christmas Quantum Part 1: the Ghost of Christmas “Is”
All cool cats, eventually, should veer away from self-serving solipsism and ponder the "meaning of it all." It can't be all about bitchin' cars, "it" couples, clicks-and-likes, and liquidity, can it?
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
343 Make the North Pole Great Again
"Sir?" asked an elf. "Yes, Pippy?" answered Santa. "Sir, about the NICE list. Last month someone from the NAUGHTY list was transferred over to it." Pippy held a tightly rolled-up scroll. Santa waved his fingers, indicating Pippy should let it spill out onto the floor, which it did.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
342 Night of Infamy
"Men," the severe, sunglasses-wearing man began, "ours is a special vocation. We are the elite force assigned to protect the most important man in the world."
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
341 — Terraforming Mars: Part 11
In Dr. Renée Niemann’s present, Mars “as is” was a quasi-water world with chilly, but not unpleasant 50º-72º F temperatures along its peri-equatorial bands of latitude. A very respectably sized moon graced the view above its 84% Oxygen/15% Nitrogen skies. Moon Ancile, during Phases I and II, wobbled the new center of gravity between it and its planet enough to ratchet Mars’ orbit in closer to the sun, adding more warmth, as well as rounding its orbit to make it less elliptical. The Martian year was still just shy twice that of Earth’s, but the perihelion-aphelion variation narrowed to almost negligible.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
340 Unnatural Causes
Rick "Ricochet" O'Shea was the kingpin of East Jesus, Missouri, but Jesus had nothing to do with it. And West Jesus, just across the bridge, had nothing to do with him.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
339 Natural Causes
"People we know, people we won't miss, people who just get in our way," explained Rick "Rick-o-chet" O'Shea, "die all the time."
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
338 CREEPY CRISPR
The human genome, like any scientific advance, relied upon remaining in the right hands. But "right hands" are in the minds of the beholders.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
337 Goes Without Saying
Nights have matured, from repairs of wear-and-tear, toward a respite that supersedes maintenance. Each sleep’s pause—and paws—portend limited days left for both of us, my old, best friend.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
336 Time for Our Annual Christmas Newsletter
Well, how fast another year has passed! As we enter the Christmas month, it's time, once again, for everyone to "Catch up with the Punctilios!"
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction