Bloody Cartilage: Psyken

A Story by Abishai100

A dark tale of a strange Plague-like outbreak involving 'zombies' in a hospital, evoking theories about planetary lithium.

A sci-fi Plague vignette inspired by the iconic film The Andromeda Strain. Thanks for reading (and Happy Christmas!),

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The doctors were in the Euro-hospital and were overseeing a group of individuals who'd been admitted as zombie-like 'return of the living dead' patients, seeming as if they're really/actually risen from their cemetery tombs, though no official records had been taken as of yet to verify if these patients were in fact catalogued in municipal records as previously deceased. Besides, no one believes in such nonsense, so the 'zombies' in that haunted hospital that day were seen by the two skilled doctors as simply 'exemplary' of their spontaneous regenerative volatility/reactivity symptoms.

The patients were simply becoming covered in spores on their body which would rupture or explode rather violently and cause complete devastation of the corporeal form. When the two doctors had reported to the Hospital Council that the spore-disease these 'zombies' suffered from were somehow connected to the reproductive (and not respiratory system!), the administration expressed their belief that such a theory would suggest that the 'spore-disease' (temporarily called Psyken) was a dissociation of hormones from cartilage, resulting in a complete disintegration of the bio-body's physique-sense of systems-orchestrated blood-flow and brain-signals regarding gated-channel chemical balance, implying a destruction of natural fertility itself.

The two doctors insisted that this 'spore-disease' named Psyken was some 'relation' to AIDS or Ebola and wondered if the 'zombie' patients had 'wandered' into the Hospital in Europe as roaming/roving desperados seeking immediate care/attention for their immortal biochemical systems leviathan or implosion and had therefore become 'emissaries' of the idea that the human biochemical system of physical body was somehow 'vulnerable' to the 'dark forces' of fertility deformity itself! This was an advanced theory which certainly indicated that the actual Plague the two doctors were dealing with now was no doubt an awakening of the signs of the Apocalypse and would inevitably require a planetary 'evangelical' crusade which would ultimately restore that beautiful spiritual balance between the mind...and the soul.