Jesus’ dreams from within the hospital.
No longer right here, right now. Here operated under different rules.
Here was a deserted asylum, being slowly eaten by the encroaching
forest, vines replacing windows, morning glory augmenting the brick
facades of what appeared to be a college campus. Here was timeless.
Interrupting his musings, the aging Chevy passed, windows rolled
down and some Styx love ballad blasting from the tinny speakers. The
fortyish man behind the wheel didn’t slow, didn’t even look around.
Jesus waited a polite moment, then crossed the cracked pavement. Dead
streetlamps flanked the overgrown paths, some tilting crazily like
drunken soldiers. Rusted iron railings drove straight lines through
shapeless shrubbery, and as Jesus crept along them, he could hear, in a
near-perfect circle around him, the rodents, the insects, the creeping
things fleeing at his bow and in his wake. The wave-front of the present
had passed, failing to take this quiet place along with it. His carefully
reddened flashlight didn’t cast enough light for anyone but a nocturnal
pothead or a cat burglar.
Jesus smiled to himself at the thought— Been both of those, I suppose.
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The original chapter of Join My Cult! excerpted in this episode written by James Curcio, co-written by Ari & Jason Stackhouse.
