Tag: Dr. Terry Martinson

St. Remedius Medical College: “The Harryhausen Weekend”

Forbidding island in the middle of a reasonably calm ocean.

What Happens To the Various Organisms Previously Threatening Earth? They Go To the Zoo. (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) To casual observers with no understanding of how ecosystems work, Earth’s biome would appear to be a pristine vista untainted by other life. The reality, as St. Remedius Medical College researchers, field teams, and mitigation crews understand far too well, is that the quantum and thaumaturgic…

St. Remedius Medical College: “Album Tour of Duty”

A black-and-white photo of an electric guitar

The Ultimate Live Show, All Across Space-Time (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Both inside and outside of St. Remedius Medical College’s Music department, the cliched “fine line between genius and madness” was best described as “well-cooked angel hair pasta.” It bobbed, it weaved, and it often crossed over one or both poles. The further reaches of musical theory produced monsters, sure, but it also produced…

St. Remedius Medical College: “Kaiju Wipeout”

When Kaiju Breeding Migrations, Instagrammers, and Kirby Suits Collide (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For the previous five centuries, the kaiju of Texas slept. They slept in the muds at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, slowly metabolizing leaking oil and the radioactive traces therein. They slept within massive caverns in the central Hill Country, breathing in carbon dioxide released as trickling rainwater eroded…

St. Remedius Medical College: Dramatis Personae – 4

Background on Major St. Remedius Personnel and Related Individuals At the Time of Its Disappearance (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Dr. Terry Martinson In a place such as St. Remedius Medical College, where personalities and egos had to be oversized just to keep up, only a few former faculty could be considered “larger than life.” Dr. Terry Martinson, professor of Metaphysics, was one of the…

St. Remedius Medical College: "The Island of Misfit Sex Toys and Other Horrors"

Sometimes, routes to worse things than Hell can be found literally in one’s back yard (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Point the First: contrary to popular opinion, travel to alternate realities is neither easy nor effective. Or, more accurately, the travel is easy but a complete return is nearly impossible. The quantum membranes between universes and subjective and objective realities are remarkably porous, with objects,…