Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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The New Isolation
Renée Niemann the veterinarian was as wise and learned as any septuagenarian could be, but she didn’t look any older than she did when she was thirty-five. Telomorphing was available but optional and over half submitted to it. It wouldn’t grow new limbs, but if one were lucky enough to live life intact, one could look forward to a youthful appearance and feel for at least 120 years. Even those at the end of the bell curve, at about 150 years life expectancy, didn’t look any older than sixty or seventy.
By Gerard DiLeo12 months ago in Longevity
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 DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
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
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
