Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

872 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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One Line Says It All (All the World's a Stage)
January 21 being "National One-Liners Day" amused him, because the one-liner was a unique construct. He recognized it shared something with poetry, packing into so few words entire treatises — entire expositions. It wasn't some aphorism with just a beginning, middle, and end. One-liners are deceptive in that they're not really linear. Pithy wisdom is a tessaract in the human mind.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Inauguration Day. Content Warning.
Not yet? Wait for it? Next year? And even an extra day, too, in February. Who can wait? No one to swear in on this January 20?
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Stagecraft
Limelight on, curtains raised Stage manager's scripts rephrased Backstage alerts me with queued cues I, spotlit, search for my muse
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
So Many Commemorations, So Few Days
January 19 is National Popcorn Day, National Gun Appreciation Day, and New Friends Day. True, these are the product of self-promotion on the part of, as examples, The Popcornhusker State, PopNebraska; the gun lobby, who feels we should appreciate how guns — VERY easily — put extra holes in people; and — perhaps — your old friends who think it might be time to get some new friends.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Sexual Intersource. Content Warning.
encumbered encounters, ensconcing, entwining, twinning, entangling, until umptillion lumens of light escape into the æther.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
The Day the Comet Wiped Out the Thesaurs
January 18 is National Thesaurus Day. January 18 also ranks 278th (out of 366 dates) in birthdate popularity. That rank is just rank, offensive, stinky, gross, and noxious.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Misplaced Anger
I've never been a great thinker. I've always been more of a reactor. Perhaps even a hyperreactor. I'm a knee-jerk jerk whose effect lashes out due to cause. Or even... for a cause.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Grief Unbearable
Forsaken, I stand naked and alone A singular point on the number line Ill winds from aft force me whither unknown Subtraction will kill with a minus sign.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Ices
A man in midlife crises Gave in to all his vices When his wife and kids were gone He subscribed to all his porn When left to his own devices
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Victory Was Ours
Today, January 17, he took inventory. He did this every year. His Chief Officer had cancelled his appointments. He slept in, but finally got out of bed for coffee, leaving his wife on her side of the bed.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
National Without a Scalpel Day
On January 16, 1964, the specialty of interventional radiology and, by association, minimally invasive surgery, was created when an angioplasty performed by Dr. Charles Dotter resulted in a Band-Aid instead of a possible amputation. Today, hysterectomies are removed through the navel and gallbladders by robots.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Insufficient Funds
The Man reported to work every day, punctually and dutifully. As the Worthless Check Constable for the state, it was his duty to recommend for prosecution those who would purposely write bad checks. Justice isn't bankrupt, after all.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction