Honorable Mentions: Some Weird Fire Term
04/24/21 • 13 min
Join us this week as we rehash more short stories lost to time. We discuss an Arkansas Pellagra case, a chloroform experiment nearly gone wrong, and a woman who raises mice for a living. We then wrap it up with a story of a man whose life is dictated by the moon.
Join us this week as we rehash more short stories lost to time. We discuss an Arkansas Pellagra case, a chloroform experiment nearly gone wrong, and a woman who raises mice for a living. We then wrap it up with a story of a man whose life is dictated by the moon.
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