Church of the Unbeliever

Another snake, another basket...

Rhett is an angry man. He gave his life to the Church of the Shining Ones and their charismatic leader. He’s out now, and struggling. The world is more difficult than he remembers it. He does the only thing he can do faced with the rigors of human interaction.

He retreats into his apartment.

Still, Lada’s words are there, they hiss like snakes between his ears. He stuffs them into mental baskets until it proves too much, until a small piece of the outside world breaks through his walled-off psyche.

This new woman is just a delivery girl, a person handing over his groceries, but the connection is real, tangible in a way Rhett cannot sufficiently understand. 

He needs to see more of her.

He must.

But desire is the work of dark forces, the evils of the world that Lada railed against and it isn’t long before Rhett finds himself spiraling, trying to break free of the clutches of a church he no longer believes in only to realize that perhaps not everything they taught was a lie.

Maybe evil is waiting just beyond the world he thinks he knows, coiled like a snake no longer confined to its basket…