Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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316 A Winter's Tale: The Snow Kept Falling—Orbital Wrath
The snow kept falling. We knew this day might come, but after thousands of years of sunshine and fair weather, we didn't know much about it. Some things stay the same so long that whole religions are based upon them.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
315 A Winter's Tale: Flakes-in-Tandem
No two snowflakes are exactly alike. Spiky, unique signatures mean no two are the same—unique as fingerprints. Even identical twins have different fingerprints, he thought.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
314 A Winter's Tale: Let It Snow Let It Snow
There it was, the cozy, small, red-roofed cottage nestled so peacefully in the fallen snow. The atmosphere was as thick as gelatin, and the stillness of the scene suggested all was well — that all residing within the cottage were happy and content. That they were fine just staying put in their little winter paradise.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
313 — Terraforming Mars, Part 7
The power of is: co-existence of the pre- with post-particles and the is-particles with the is-not particles that defines the near vacuum which is the present. The force that self-sustains it—the power of is—allows a wider 3-D volume of tempconciliation that now makes possible the coverage of much larger areas, not to mention wider epochs.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
312 Gainfully Employed
I was unemployed for years, but I finally got some help at the unemployment office. That is, I was hired by the Unemployment Office as an employed employee. W-2, benefits, and everything.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
311 The Day After, Just Without Zombies (or, Is it?). Top Story - November 2024.
Note: this author is currently out of commission preparing to leave the country, but not because of the election yesterday. As such, I had to write this in two versions:
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
310 My Vote Discounts
November 5, "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November," is statutorily set as election day here in the USA. It is, coincidentally, Guy Fawkes Day in the UK.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
309 Neo and Juliet
Juliet and Dan were K-9 trainers, so there was always a big dog there. No problem for me. I arrived as dinner was being served. Juliet greeted me at the door, along with a German Shepherd, "Neo."
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
308 National Housewife's Day
Among other celebrations, today's both National Housewife’s Day and Give Someone a Dollar Day. A funny story... Because I love my job and my profession, a pretty good day is typical for me. But when I'm off, on Sundays, I savor something exquisite.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
307 — Terraforming Mars, Part 6
Tempconciliation is defined as the process by which two different time periods are focused onto one another and a third temporal reality is produced.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Butterfly Effect
Butterflies arrive From all things a world away And all add up here
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
The Mir Down Here
Russian bodily Fluids and whiskers rained down When Mir fell on me _________ The Russian space station Mir was deorbited and destroyed in a controlled burn through the Earth's atmosphere on March 23, 2001.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets