Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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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
366 Finality Finally
Today, this Story-a-Day-challenge leaps to my 366th offering. At midnight tonight the clock resets back to 1, and day 366 is just hindsight.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
365 Writing Strips One Bare. Top Story - December 2024.
She hadn't married him for looks, because he was most unsightly. She married him for his brain. Theirs was a marriage that was the opposite of the cautionary tale of those who marry their "one true" trophies for looks.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
364 The Whole Universe Is Against Me
Byron Masters discovered the threshold of synapse interaction that determined self-awareness. His "Masters' Threshold" of S = f (D/m3) Nx 2.56P, still unpublished, also proved the connections needn't be neurons—one example being trees, sustained by the "S" of the fungi interconnecting them.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
363 Swingers
This swing set popular in Owensboro, Kentucky—with 5 swings. The playground being busy, there was never an empty seat. Quintets of children re-cycled, the asynchrony of the swing arcs keeping its solid wood feet firmly planted, complementing the prudent anchor bolts rooted into the dirt.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
362 Leaving Well Enough Alone
The monolithic ant mound stands colossal, stubbornly inert. There's not a living thing on this parched, stucco, gated community, masquerading as a dead artifact in the dead desert.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
361 Memoirs of Eddie H. Christ, Jesus' Little Brother—"Come in Peace"
So let’s see. The Christmas star was so mysterious that no one would've guessed the real truth. There was that supernova theory, for which we can be thankful that we have stuff like Cesium in us—and iron doesn’t hurt none either. And then there are all the comet theories; there’s the hypothetical conjunctional conglomeration of three planets in the constellation Pisces.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
360 There's No Complaining on Christmas!
This Christmas a fruitcake arrived, with a note reading, "A new fruitcake will arrive every month. MERRY CHRISTMAS!" I didn't know who'd sent it.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
359 Christmas Eve and the Suspension of Disbelief
"Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 19:14 Is Christmas only for children? If you think so, you have lost some important hard-wiring in your brain. You're less human.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction