Swear This Really Happened

SNAKES I WAS READY FOR. THIS WAS SOMETHING ELSE.I grew up in churches — weird ones. The kind where speaking in tongues came before lunch, and healing oil was kept where other families might keep salt. But nothing — not one tent revival or demon-casting caravan — prepared me for Muddy Calf Gut Creek Full Gospel Church.I expected rattlesnakes in burlap sacks.What I got was Pastor PeeWee. Prophet Preacher Willy Nelson Jr. Esquire. And a congregation that didn’t handle serpents…They became them.By the

Episode 1 — The ShimmerI know I smoke a lot of weed… but I swear this really happened.There are some things you don’t see with your eyes, you see them with whatever part of you dreams while you’re still awake. I was sitting in a doctor’s waiting room when it happened again: the shimmer. A rip in the air, like a slit in reality. And through it, I saw her.Not the sick woman in the chair… but the thing wrapped around her. Part panther. Part serpent. All hunger.It saw me staring.So I did the only thing