Gerard DiLeo
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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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Of Another Kind Altogether—Part 3
Dr. Tilden didn’t know what to do now, if anything. As the radiologist reading Marilyn Mayer’s prenatal ultrasound, she couldn’t understand the patient’s non-plussed reaction to the results being “puzzling.” Nor could she understand what Marilyn had meant by “everyone else” being in danger instead of her pregnancy.
By Gerard DiLeo10 months ago in Fiction
Of Another Kind Altogether—Part 2. Top Story - May 2025.
Dr. Tilden was puzzled by Marilyn’s ultrasound. The uterus was a size compatible with a 12-week gestation, but it looked empty. Normally, this would be termed a failed pregnancy, a “blighted ovum,” or an “empty sac,” doomed as an inevitable miscarriage. Yet Marilyn’s serial blood tests demonstrated rising hCG hormones, indicating a healthy pregnancy.
By Gerard DiLeo10 months ago in Fiction
Or Another Kind Altogether—Part 1
Marilyn didn't want to stay. She felt fine. She understood everyone's concern—being missing a week—but she also knew she was unharmed. After three days of blood tests and psychiatric questionnaires, she was ready to storm out without permission. She was an adult, after all.
By Gerard DiLeo10 months ago in Fiction
Sinuous Pareidolia
Defocus and dodge the snakes.
By Gerard DiLeo11 months ago in Poets
A Maltopia
Alvin Toffler, in his book, "Future Shock," explored how the rapidly changing culture can pass some by. Those who cannot adjust or even grasp the changes around them can experience confusion and isolation. While his book hinted at the elderly being most prone to this "future" shock, the rapidity of change, seen now as logarithmic and not arithmetic, has been continually lowering the bar, that is, the age at which future shock seems to seep in.
By Gerard DiLeo11 months ago in Futurism
Homunculus. Honorable Mention in The Metamorphosis of the Mind Challenge. Top Story - April 2025.
The homunculus is a representation of the man behind the man, the woman behind the woman, the body behind the body: the graphic mapping of what parts of the body are put together in proportion to how they’re laid out and innervated as related to our brain tissue. Not all sensations and volitional movements are distributed evenly. Thus, the homunculus is a distorted—even a comical—little creature.
By Gerard DiLeo11 months ago in Psyche
Another Kind Altogether
Marilyn didn't want to stay. She felt fine. She understood everyone's concern—being missing a week—but she also knew she was unharmed. After three days of blood tests and psychiatric questionnaires, she was ready to storm out without permission. She was an adult, after all.
By Gerard DiLeo11 months ago in Fiction
Dervish: Potential Space. Runner-Up in Self-Editing Epiphany Challenge.
Creative risk? I venture to rail against the theocracy that enslaves half of an entire population. How many da Vincis, Edisons, Hemingways, Gödels, Mozarts, or Rembrandts are surrounded by the black cloud of divinely ordained propriety? How our world progresses at only half potential!
By Gerard DiLeo12 months ago in Critique
