Plague of Pythons
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Completed, First published Mar 02, 2026

The humid rot of the Louisiana bayou clings to everything in this novel, a suffocating green darkness where the lines between swamp fever and madness blur. Pohl doesn’t offer spectacle, but a creeping dread – the slow, inexorable press of scaled bodies against warm flesh, the hiss of unseen constrictors in the cypress knees. It isn’t the snakes themselves that haunt these pages, but the unraveling of a world already steeped in decay. Families crumble under the weight of their own histories, mirroring the escalating coils that choke the livestock, then the children. The narrative unfolds like a fever dream, laced with the scent of jasmine and decay, where the boundaries between man and beast dissolve into a suffocating, serpentine embrace. The air hangs thick with the promise of a silent, suffocating death, not from venom, but from the sheer, overwhelming weight of scales and muscle. Every shadow seems to writhe with movement, every whisper carries the slither of scales across damp earth. It’s a story not of monsters *in* the swamp, but of the swamp *becoming* monster, and the quiet, desperate terror of those swallowed whole by its green, suffocating embrace.
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