What Changed With St. Remedius’s Disappearance, And What Stayed Exactly The Same (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Both before and after the disappearance of St. Remedius Medical College, Dallas, Texas was a Heisenberg condensate given real estate. There was the Dallas everyone worldwide knew, whether it was the Denisovian Embassy downtown, the fae enclaves and tribes in the north suburbs, or the giant sessile filterfeeding…
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St Remedius Medical College: “The Neonate, In More Ways Than One”
Introducing Michal Kasparek, The Last Editor of Creative Onanism (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The Dallas weekly newspaper Creative Onanism could never present itself as “serving the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area” with any of its staff doing so with a straight face. A paper so notorious for suppressing stories that might hurt the publisher’s mimosa brunch members’ feelings that the editor’s traditional nickname was “Spike”…
St. Remedius Radio: “Grave Dealings”
Making The World Safe For Fun-Sized Snickers (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Family and friends of St. Remedius Medical College students and alumni were constantly surprised that St. Remedius never had anything approximating Halloween festivities. No Halloween socials, no Halloween parties, no Halloween drink specials at local bars. While the rest of Dallas used the holiday as yet another excuse for blackout drinking and temporary…
St. Remedius Medical College: "Introducing Tim Waite"
Every Story Needs An Antagonist: Installment One of Many (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Every morning, Tim Waite stared into the abyss. Every morning, the abyss stared back and started screaming for its mommy. The term “carcinization” refers to the propensity of unrelated arthropods to evolve toward a crab—like form. “Dendronization” refers to the similar propensity of unrelated plants to become trees. No similar term…
Backstories: "Inverter" (2020)
Plant: Nepenthes hybrid (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (Note: this installment was originally a backstory for one of the famed Texas Triffid Ranch carnivorous plant enclosures, but gets a redistribution because of its immediate involvement with several upcoming St. Remedius installments. Things are already weird with St. Remedius stories, but now things get interesting.) Let me tell you something about Some Guy. I first heard…