Genre: Weird fiction

Setting: UK, present day

Query: I need a clinical psychiatric diagnosis for a person presenting as follows; recurring nightmares of falling causing interrupted sleep, the fear that he isn’t real but might be someone else’s dream, extreme sleep deprivation, night terrors. The individual is terrified of falling asleep, and has ( Read more... )

Already searched : “medieval illness/disease”, “medieval  epidemics”, “epidemics”, etc + the various diseases that presented  themselves during those searches but without much success for my  specific set of requirements. So I turn to you lovely people for help  ...

Setting : Medieval (late 12th century) - Middle east (present day Lebanon) in a ( Read more... )

Final edit: Leukemia seems to be the solution - thank you all for your suggestions, even if I couldn't use them! It helped a lot to think through all the possibilities.So I'm writing a story set in a fantasy world with limited to no technology as we know it (some civilizations know how to use gunpowder to blow up things, but that's not present in ( Read more... )

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I've been developing an original sci-fi universe. It's essentially a series of colonies built on the ocean floor (a la Bioshock) where the majority of the population is essentially used for manual labor and thought of as lesser by those living on the surface. They aren't treated particularly well and suffice to say that their healthcare is pretty ( Read more... )

As per http://little-details.livejournal.com/3528017.html#comments , with a new approach. Mostly a check of the ol' disbelief suspenders, at this point ( Read more... )

setting: Chicago, Illinois circa 1924 or 1925; the character in question was born in London, November of 1907 ( Read more... )

Setting: Mars, mid to late 2030s (for a The Martian fanfic)

If possible, I need my character to mistake one drug he needs to take (and is not familiar with) with another drug with a similar name that ends up giving him delusions for a short time. (He's going to think he's a cat. Don't ask.)

Caveats:

• He's trying to be careful, so the drugs need to ( Read more... )

Setting: [Cold War era, fictional country] Isaac, a 20-30 something physicist is being chased down after doing something that he wasn't supposed to do. He knew beforehand that the possibility of getting caught/something going wrong was high, so he planned to jump off the bridge into the deep, moving river. However, knowing the physics behind it, ( Read more... )

Setting: a fantasy world, but in a land that would be like near the North Pole if it were Earth. Time-wise, probably equivalent to the 16th or 17th centuries ( Read more... )