The Howling Storm by Kenneth W. Noe

“The wounded suffered immensely in such conditions but at least some reaped one odd benefit. Soldiers began to report that some men’s wounds glowed with a faint but eerie blue light they called ‘angel’s glow.’ Odder still, those men later seemed to survive their wounds at a higher rate. Recent research suggests that the cold weather and lower body temperatures that followed (the Battle of Shiloh) allowed luminescent bacteria called Photorhabdus Luminescens, living within parasitic nematodes in Shiloh’s churned mud, to enter wounds and destroy deadly bacteria. The glow occurred when the nematodes vomited the bacteria.”

-Kenneth W. Noe, 2020