Snake Eyes

I hated snakes. Let me make that clear. They are cursed devil-creatures, doomed to a life of misery sliding on their bellies and eating dirt.

Imagine my fear when I was bitten by a poisonous one.

I'm not going to say that things were fine, because they weren't.

I was in pain, I got sick, I became more afraid of snakes than I've ever been.

But something else happened.

And if my fear of snakes was as real as I thought it was...

I should have been mortified of my own self.