Come Summer, The Unique Dallas Explosion (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (Originally published in Funny Maundering magazine: July 20xx. All rights reserved.) Nature is full of examples of animals and plants that spend years building up energy, emerging to spread, and then dying off. Cicadas, certain species of bamboo, walking crepe myrtles. There are also the examples of organisms that drastically change their physiology based…
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St. Remedius Radio: “Quantum Ramen”
One Reason Why St. Remedius Students Kept Coming Back (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The first week of the summer semester at St. Remedius Medical College always hit differently for the students who returned home for the summer versus those who stayed on campus or worked intern slots with Dallas industries. Without fail, those who spent the summer away from campus gradually looked at the…
St. Remedius Radio: “The Best of Times, The End of Times”
Celebrating What Would Have Been The End of The St. Remedius School Year (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) At any other time, the end of May would have marked the end of the school year at St. Remedius Medical College. Graduation ceremonies, dorm cleanouts, promises to stay in touch, and offers to hang out over the summer. This being St. Remedius, many of the students…
St. Remedius Radio: “Finals and Lapels”
How St. Remedius Students Recovered From Finals (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Many institutes of higher learning have traditions at the end of the school year, particularly around finals. Whether Caltech’s Ditch Day or Southern Methodist University’s Running of the Coke Dealers, most involve releasing stress just before or just before the main rush of final exams. St. Remedius Medical College took the theme to…
St. Remedius Radio: “Greyshaming And Other Side-Eyes”
The One Great Texas Growth Industry (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Compared to other places in the universe, Earth was relatively paltry in contemporary visitation from other intelligences. Back before anyone on Earth had a baseline for what constituted an “average” rate of visitation, experts of all sorts argued the reasons. Was it because intelligent life elsewhere was so rare, was it because intelligences had…
St. Remedius Radio: “The Stuff May Stop, But It Never Ends”
Whatever Happens To St. Remedius Surplus? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) In addition to the detritus of exonormal research, one of the legacies of the disappearance of St. Remedius Medical College involved the intended end products. Even with the College’s disappearance, the greater Dallas area was loaded with toolboxes, repositories, accumulations, dumps, and armories of necessary, obvious, and opportunistic devices, mechanisms, collectives, manifestations, and echoes….
St. Remedius Radio: “Love In The Air”
The Ultimate St. Remedius First Date Experience (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Love knoweth not a specific location nor season, and the assembled students and faculty of St. Remedius Medical College never let a particular location dictate whether they felt the world move. However, when asked for perfect places to meet that perfect individual or colony, most agreed that the best places were the various…
St. Remedius Radio: “Ants And Plants”
Everything Against Everythng, the Dallas Way (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For various reasons related and unrelated to St. Remedius Medical College, the biology of the greater Dallas, Texas area has few parallels. Habitat shrinkage and destruction, industrial poisons and mutagens, authorized and unauthorized testing and disposal of experimental chemical and exotechnological wastes, thaumaturgic and psionic residues, and steady radioactive outgassing from the Trinity River…none…
St. Remedius Radio: “When The Tube’s Enough”
What to Watch When Downtime Is Inevitable (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) It’s Friday night. Homework is done. Those students assigned to check on experiments or feed lab animals have a few hours before the tardigrades rip through the cage bars and run amok. The students at St. Remedius Medical College were no different from any other college student in the state of Texas after…
St. Remedius Radio: “At Midnight, All The Cleaning Agents”
So. Much. Dust. (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) As Spring Break ended at St. Remedius Medical College, students returned to a campus significantly cleaner than they had left. Most of the mess was inevitable: approximately 4000 students, faculty, administrators, and support produced a lot of detritus, and visitors and honored guests generated even more. Just the human contingent alone produced kilograms of dead skin, hair,…