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For the Love of Words

A story for all time

By Debbie Noland Guest Columnist
Posted 10/23/25

It’s not the kind of story you would expect from an 18-year-old woman living in 1816. It is about an overly zealous scientist obsessed with creating human life. To that end, he fashions a man from various dead body parts and harnesses electricity to reanimate them. The result is a hideous creature that he abandons out of fear and dread.

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