Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

872 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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Down to Earth
For the challenge by MacKenzie Davis, https://customer-opinion.top/writers/official-unofficial-ekphrastic-challenge-rules by MacKenzie Davis,
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Festum Asinorum
In Christianity, January 14 is Festum Asinorum, or "Feast of the Ass." In France it is known as the Fête de l'âne, which has morphed to that from the Feast of Fools. The Christian connection to this celebration is the ass, itself, a donkey used by the holy family to leave Egypt.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Creation and Elation
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of the void but out of chaos." — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice, With a Pinch of Ginger
January 12 is National Kiss a Ginger Day. Red is the color of fire, and I wear my hair wild, as a warning: Not too close or you could get burned.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Two Points of View
POINT OF VIEW THE FIRST: My chow-chow dog, Bonzo, was mesmerized by what I was doing, as he was for all my human activities. I tended the pit, stoking the coals. He barked as each additional guest arrived.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Mr. Right
She was beside herself. Her conduits between her left brain and right brain were faltering. She planned her day with her left brain, but her right brain decided to sleep in. Some time after, she had managed to drive to the mall, albeit with many left turns at no-left-turn corners.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Zero Sum Game
We went our separate ways Overstaying painful days Together tangentially, bipolar proximates Entombed, penitentiarily, unipolar opposites
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
OICUR1-2 (in 3-D)
Apocalyptic Brethren cheating Cruel death effectively Deploying excellent foresight, gradually Evading fierce ghouls hiding insidiously
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Mortuary Nights
As morgue gurneys roll — Bodies from refrigeration to hereafter, Chyme and bile movement continue, Despite death's finality, and
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Common Sense, Published on This Date
In 1776 Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a political and moral case for the colonists to reject subjugation by a monarchy far away. His message?
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Vogons Be Damned!
I didn't try to write poetry until I hit 70. Not mph, but years-old. Consider that, if you will. Just when I feared 70 was the new 69, and not much enthusiasm therein, I started my serious poetry "journey."
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Jan 9: First Stupid Day of the Stupid Civil War
January 9, 1861, the Civil War officially began when Confederates attacked the Star of the West, a steamer entering Charleston Harbor. It was struck three times but was able to retreat back to New York. Cadets at the South Carolina Military Academy (now, The Citadel) were the ones who fired these first shots of the American Civil War.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction