Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

872 stories

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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The Butterfly Effect
The real story behind the butterfly effect was about a meteorologist, Edward Lorenz. (https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200301/history.cfm)
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in History
Organ Rebellion
This All Hollows' Eve The organs will speak again Making statements how they grieve For those donating them *** They volunteered, not, to abdicate
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Residrool
We've all done it. Spit happens. We fall asleep and there it is. A mouth slightly ajar (no pun intended) releases a little spillover of saliva for us to discover on the pillow, with some embarrassment. However, my most notorious episodes of residrool were in the classroom, not in bed.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Technopause
Always on the cusp, after buying my first computer, a 4-megahertz "screamer," I read the entire DOS book. My MHz were eventually replaced by GHz, a thousand times faster. Over the years I kept up with Moore's law.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Boddobing, Boddobang, Boddobung
Boddobing. On the island of Sango Jingo, they speak Dilingo. It is unique in linguistics, using what are called vowel movements to alter meaning. One particularly motif covers the exchange of greetings:
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Microcytic
Vampire sees me I'm so humiliated I am anemic
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
What Can't Be Said. Top Story - October 2023.
Unspeakably descriptive A word held in tight Indeterminably vague Its utterance is contradiction *** Used to describe the horrors
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
The Swing
I lean in hopeful Her head rotates, defending A cheek answers me
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Relativity
Not as great as thought But worth much more than they say I walk the middle
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Jetsam Decisions
What was I thinking? I wouldn't, shouldn't, couldn't Believe I did that
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
The First Night As Newlyweds
Are you sleepy now It looks to me like you are You can rest tonight
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Annularity
Spacial dance tangential Dual adversarial approach Competing illuminations In antithesis For attention From those for whom
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets