The Galvanic Ghost

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A woman entreats a student of medicine for help with an extraordinary and destructive condition, she can conduct massive amounts of electricity.

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Excerpt: I am only a student. That’s why she came to me, trusting that I would have a sufficient balance of knowledge and naiveté to serve her desperate need.

And I am woman. That’s why she came to me, trusting that I would not mark her concerns as mere hysterics.

What was this strange and destructive condition she bore? She spoke of hurting her husband and fleeing from her children so that she would never hurt them. She spoke of being pursued by authorities in dark garb.

What’s the Word (that inspired the story)?Galvanic: pertaining to or produced by galvanism; producing or caused by an electric current. Galvanism: Electricity, especially as produced by chemical action. In Medicine. The therapeutic application of electricity to the body. Diaphoresis: perspiration, especially when artificially induced. (source: dictionary.com)

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CREDITSStory: “The Galvanic Ghost” Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: “Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background” by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)* “Inspector” “Unsolved” “At night” “Blood and bones” “Witches” “Whispers” “Evidence” “Eternal life” “Creatures of the night”

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A woman in a Victorian era dress sits on a bench, facing and looking forward, her legs bent slightly to the right. Her arms are outstretched and her hands rest on the metallic ends of the bench. A bronze panel is bolted to the bottom front of the bench at left. The panel bears four visible dials: a row of three dials at bottom, and one at top right corner of the panel. To the left of the single dial is written, “Electrical,” and below that “40 Amperes” and below that “No. 87.” Electric bolts spray out from a central point, the woman’s head and neck.