Challenge
Drabble challenge April 2024: ARISE
Spring has sprung and it's the Easter season. (Yeah, yeah, it was in March, but just go with it, eh?) This month's drabble challenge is THE UNDEAD. Give me a 100 word prose story, using standard English and punctuation, that tells a tale of the restless dead, arisen from their eternal slumber. Zombies, Vampires, Wights, Revanants, you pick it. I'll pick the winner sometime around the first of May.
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Apparent Novel, Unidentified Interfibrillar Syncytial Virus — a Case Report
New England Journal of Medicine
A 54-year-old mortuary assistant, brought to the Emergency Department by EMS, presented as an agitated man in otherwise good health but with a corpse adhering to his entire ventral surface. Over several hours, the patient grew weaker. The corpse was observed undergoing revitalization, in an apparent metabolic exchange between their two bodies. The adherence between them was a non-stratified interfibrillar fusion extending from both the patient's and the corpse's epidermis, through to their dermis, subcutaneous tissue, fascia, and finally ending in vascular anastomosis. They were separated surgically under general anesthesia. The patient did not survive.