An Update On What’s Happened So Far (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (Incoming message from the Hylocereus Cascade, the preferred telepathic transmission system between edible cacti) …signal repeating. Annual update on currently available information involving St. Remedius Medical College, transmitted across the Cascade at times of least interference. Signal XX7395TTYFI to acknowledge receipt, and drink deep of the data. Main categories include: The College: Current…
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St. Remedius Medical College: Mission Statement
Why St. Remedius Is What It Is (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Contrary to expectations, St. Remedius Medical College wasn’t the only organization dedicated to exploring, documenting, chronicling, exterminating, or otherwise researching extranormal phenomena. It wasn’t the best-funded, nor the largest, or the oldest, or even the one with the best archives. Where St. Remedius succeeded was in name recognition. Members of top-secret government or…
Backstories & Fragments: About the Backstories
What to expect with what you’re reading here Essential information about your humble author: between 1989 and 2002, I was a professional writer working for a slew of magazines, zines, weekly newspapers, and Web sites, most of which have disappeared without trace. Finally in 2002, after hitting burnout over delayed payments, publications shutting down without notice, and editors demanding work for free, I quit writing entirely in the spring of…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Back History, With Occasional Explosions”
Who was St. Remedius? The Official Story In the early days of the Catholic Church, the criteria for individuals achieving sainthood were considerably more flexible than today, and many early saints currently in registry today either didn’t exist, being created out of whole cloth either to make a point or for a laugh, or they were real people with tales of celestial abilities and interventions added centuries after their deaths,…
And so it begins.
The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College Of the many mysteries behind the famous/notorious educational institution known as the St. Remedius Medical College, the most enduring involves its recent destruction on an otherwise nondescript day in May. The annihilation of the entire campus was notable in that absolutely nobody was killed or even injured, and the only remaining trace of the college was a massive excavation just north of downtown…