Mycelial - A short story
In which a mycelial network discovers individualism
Edit 1: This has rapidly became my most popular story. It recieved an honorable mention for an award, and kept being shared by readers. Thanks to your support, I have regained my motivation to keep writing stories like this, and to get another book out soon.
Edit 2: As of October 2023, Cinnabar Moth Publishing has acquired the rights to this story, meaning you won’t be able to see it here any more. They’re a fantastic group of people and I am honoured to have them as my first proper trad-pub publisher (yes, really, I haven’t gotten one until now)*
*Unless you count postcardshorts, which has sadly shut down.
The full short story will be featured in Cinnabar’s Feb 2024 anthology.
You can read Mycelial by clicking the button below.
https://cinnabarmothliterarycollections.com/flip_book/ezine-issue-4-volume-2/
I enjoy stories that deal with truly non human perspectives, so this was up my alley and I liked it. But I will admit I hard trouble 'translating' some of the descriptions to what I'd recognize them as, making the world a bit hazy to me. In a sense that fits with how different a mushroom is.
Also quite the ominous ending.
Amazing story, Philip. I was mesmerized from beginning to end.