Laughing Gas: The Awakening

Summary:A nurse discovers her flatulence might awaken a comatose lawyer and secretly conducts gaseous experiments to try to help him return to his family before his health deteriorates.*Are you smart enough to figure out how everything relates before the nurse does?Detailed description:Nurse Kim witnesses a miracle, or so she thinks. During her night shift, a long-term comatose patient suddenly awakens, bursts into laughter, and abruptly slips back into his catatonic state. When she summons the neurology team, hoping to replicate the phenomenon, the patient remains completely unresponsive. With no medical explanation and no witnesses to the event, Kim is left looking like a fool. Amid this controversy, Kim hides a secret from the team: the patient’s brief awakening occurred immediately after she passed gas in his room.Suffering the depressive heartache of suddenly losing her father, Kim sympathizes with the man in the coma and his despondent family who desperately wants him back home. Fearing reprisal from the hospital staff, Kim will secretly do everything within her means to prove the patient woke up so that he can return to life with his wife and children. Kim is certain that he is arousable, but could flatulence really be the only way to cure him of his coma?The intestinal pressure mounts when the patient’s health takes a drastic turn for the worse. Kim must act quickly to solve the puzzle. If she is not careful with her gaseous experiments, Kim will lose her job, and the comatose man will lose his life.No AI in here! This story was imagined and written entirely by Paul Sterman (original text, 2017). No part of this story was created, produced, envisioned, or developed with the help of any large language model artificial intelligence. Read more