The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College

St. Remedius Medical College: “Ghosts, Echoes, and Lipstick Traces”

The Saga of Las Colinas and Its Thaumaturgic Rebirth (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) One of the more complicated aspects of chronicling the effects of St. Remedius Medical College on the greater Dallas area, both before and after the College’s disappearance, involves the various artifacts of city development that might be misconstrued. Was the giant half-ruined castle atop a hill overlooking one of the local…

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…

The Dinner Theater Adaptation of War of the Gargantuas Continues It’s dawn. Two four-legged tumors settle in and find their favorite sleeping spots: one in my office, waiting for the sound of clacking keys and random curses under my breath. The other stumbles to his favorite windowsill, allowing him plenty of time to lounge while reporting on the perfidies of the local crows. For most of the day, all they…

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…

Lots Of Discarded Critters Make Dallas What It Is (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Dallas bows to no city in its variety of indigenous versus introduced wildlife, with jokes that synthetic and metaphysically generated forms will outnumber standard biological forms in future Trinity River fossil beds. During its existence in the Dallas area, St. Remedius Medical College conducted extensive surveys of local life and its…

There Are Disasters, And There Are Learning Experiences (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (From the St. Remedius Archives, September 13, 20XX. All rights reserved.) This is KREG, 88.7 FM, Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton, and this is Call Sign. I’m your host, Kayla Anno. This morning, we focus on the arrival of the Wolfram Tor delegation at Addison Spaceport, the conviction and sentencing of Brandon Michaels, the new…

The Assumption Is That Temporal Anomalies Only Affect the Future (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) One of the greatest conceits about time travel, and one of the reasons why it remains possible, is the assumption that travelers can make significant and enduring changes from their own actions. More often than not, the timeline is damaged by incessant interference from multiple visitors, but individuals have precious…

Dallas’s Greatest Musical Protest And Its St. Remedius Connection (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Every year on the first Friday of April Gregorian, a very special tradition runs at the Matilda Theater just north of downtown Dallas, Texas. At 7:00 that evening, the Matilda opens not to the general public, but to a select group of journalists, mostly music critics, all specially invited. No itinerary…

Networks Upon Networks Upon Networks (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The great quandary of the last billion years: the universe is too vast to grasp, and seemingly deliberately so. At one time, the universe was small enough to traverse its distance with relatively simple technologies, and the shame was that the conditions that short a time after the Big Bang were unsuited for both those…

Even Exonormal Organizations Need New Blood (Backstory: Originally published in the long-dead online magazine Revolution Science Fiction in 2001, this is how the sausage is made, with a few changes to remove mention of a particular comics-industry sex pest. This is where the whole St. Remedius story got its start: from an article in the Wall Street Journal about how both the FBI and CIA were sending recruiters to Fort Lauderdale and…

Introducing the Steve Kosh Action Figure (Backstory: Originally published in the long-dead online magazine Revolution Science Fiction in 2001, this one actually had a basis of truth, or at least speculative truthiness we now call “clickbait.” Either way, it’s a matter of time before someone makes a Larry Ellison Funko Pop.) Cupertino, California – 2001 was an atrocious year for the entire computer industry, with sales of hardware, software, and peripherals slipping and…

When New York Style Hits Science Fiction (Backstory: Originally published in the long-dead online magazine Zealot in 2001, this one was inspired by regular whinings about how science fiction magazines would somehow become massmarket attractions if they somehow got big names to edit them, as well as subscription cards for The New Yorker with “Edited By Tina Brown!” making a thick leafy mulch on the floors of magazine sections at most…

How Your Humble Narrator Knows That Savannah Monitor Urine Looks Exactly Like Crack Cocaine (Backstory: Originally published in the online newsletter The Hell’s Half-Acre Herald in 2001, this essay comes up occasionally on why I know such terrible things. In the quarter-centruy since it first saw publication, I know so, so much more. I now have a whole list of people, particularly in day jobs, who ask the same question that Laurie…

When Electronic Immortality Strikes Back (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Long before the formation of the original Order of St. Remedius, the general consensus on the ability to preserve a presence after death was not only accepted by mystics and religious leaders, but accepted as a given. Some self remained around a body well after all vital signs ceased, depending upon the will and the…

Has It REALLY Been That Long? (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular updates of how the sausage is made,…

Even In An Age of Miracle And Wonder, There Are Always Grifters (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The Dallas and the Texas that St. Remedius Medical College was sequestered within was and still is a haven for sometimes cryptic and sometimes blatant wonders. From Fury Fiesta to the great fae nesting grounds of Plano, Dallas was and is full of weirds, odds, and anomalies, to…

When An Irresistible Lint-Covered Breast Implant Encounters An Immovable Doorstop Report from the front: Day 21 of the Great Kaiju War. Code Name “Parker” is getting used to his territory being invaded incessantly by Code Name “Winston.” (Note: Command, Honey Huan to my Uncle Duke, notes that the current code names make the two sound like butlers. Because yelling “Winston, get off that counter NOW!” and “Parker, quit drinking out…

(Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Lupinus texensis. Bluebonnet. The Texas state flower. After the last chance of freeze throughout the state, usually around the middle of March, millions of bluebonnets sprout in otherwise barren or at least nutrient-depleted locales, bloom, drop seeds, and then die, all before the middle of spring. Most humans in the Dallas area look at bluebonnet patches as scenic locales for…

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…

What Did St. Remedius Students Do For Spring Break? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (And it’s time to note that this week is St. Remedius Radio Pledge Drive Week! We know things are tight for everybody, so we’re not going to spend all week nagging and nuhdzing you to toss money that you desperately need, but if you can, consider buying a St. Remedius T-shirt! Put Mandatory Parker stickers all…

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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…

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Rocketed from the dying planet Skaro as an infant, the individual known as “Paul Riddell” is a quantum probability that occasionally takes inspiration from Bell’s Theorem to manifest as a writer of fiction and nonfiction. The writer aspect manifested between 1989 and 2002, where, aside from a few relapses terminally regretted by everyone involved, the writer aspect was strangled in its bed and buried. Facets of that aspect are consolidated in the books Squashed Armadillocon (1993), Greasing the Pan: The “Best” of Paul T. Riddell (2009), and The Savage Pen of Onan: The “Best” of the Hell’s Half-Acre Herald (also 2009), available from fine thrift stores and composting bins everywhere. In 2002, the aspect changed upon contact with the indigenous carnivorous plants of Tallahassee, Florida (blame Jeff VanderMeer for this), ultimately leading to the creation and opening of the Texas Triffid Ranch, popularly described as “Dallas’s Pretty Much Only Carnivorous Plant Gallery,” which ran from 2015 to 2023. A massive increase in rent caused the Triffid Ranch to shut down in early 2023, with The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College starting on Substack in May 2024 before moving to the current location in 2025. Paul Riddell is currently not married, has no children other than a 10-kilo lint-covered breast implant that impersonates a cat, and currently deliberates on the individual so deserving of a severe karmic curb-stomping that s/he becomes executor of his literary estate.

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