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Gerard DiLeo

THE FRICTION SECTION delivers a FREE original (non-AI fiction) fiction/day: GOING STRONG SINCE 2023! Genres include fantasy, sci-fi, horror, humor, mystery, humor, fable, and the irreverent. PAID subscription for my novels, too.

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  • Gerard DiLeo

    New Orleans born of pansavants and suckled by celebrity Hollywood wet-nurses, now in an old church in Hull, MA. Tangential hippocampal visitor. Member of the very small Substack club who write a new fiction every damn day—going strong since 2023.

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