It was a normal day.

Until it wasn't.

A quick hallucination.

Best read to the tune of Howard Shore - TranscendenZ By PilgrImage

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It was a normal day. He sat down at El Guapo’s with his family and placed his order. A chimichanga with a bottled coke. The rest of his family ordered too, one by one, and he sat there staring. His sister ordered, then his brother-in-law, his nephew, and his mom and dad.

The waiter grinned, thanked them for their orders, and walked away.

He stood up from the table, and he started trembling madly. The sister was sipping her margarita when she turned to him and gasped with horror.

“Oh my god,” she said. “Are you okay?”

He trembled faster and faster. Not like a seizure, but inhuman. Like an animation, or a glitched-out model in a video game. He convulsed, arms and legs outstretched, and his eyes grew wider than ever. Then came the screams. He screamed, and he screamed and screamed.

“OH GOD,” he wailed. “NO, OH NO.”

His nephew started sobbing, and then the brother-in-law covered his eyes. Everybody in the restaurant was watching. His mother begged someone to call 911. Nobody dared move an inch.

Then it began. His body tore open with a long rip down the center of his abdomen, enormous shark teeth emerging from the red guts of his being. The rest of his body melted away like candle wax—his arms, legs, and head falling off, splattering against the floor. Everybody evacuated the restaurant—except his family.

The mouth got bigger, and all the human parts congealed into an enormous blob. The teeth were like swords, and his mother sat there and watched. His father begged her to move.