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Mushroom people don't live on a planet on the other side of the sun. They extend tendrils into corpses and convert dead flesh to their own.

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fungi win
largest creature in Earth
so there, animals

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puffballs
give birth underfoot
stomp again

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These giant fungi
edible houses if you will
once you have too many windows
you just move on

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mushroom babies


don't speak when spoken to
don't move fast
don't excel at sports
but they don't eat much
thrive in the dark
and, oh they spread
and when they pop?
grandkids everywhere!

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The Remarkable Mr. Bass


no one saw our companion world
floating on the other side of Sol
fungi ruled with a light hand there
how could we see
how could we know
before human spaceflight?
so impossible
no one suspected
until the kids told their story
to Ms Cameron

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sporing bodies
bursting from his chest
a groan escapes

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under the slide
hyphae cogitate and
caps flare everywhere

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Persephone paces

phosphorescent fungi sprout

with every step

It's Aliiiiiiiive! Oo, the colors!

It was lightning, we think, striking a large dead oak whose roots were entangled with the fungal mass, that made the Earth's largest living organism sentient. Think of a vegetal brain that weighs as much as Columbus, Ohio, and is more intelligent. Too late, we discovered its minions had infiltrated farm fields from California to Maine. Ergot poisoning simultaneously affected at least a third of the US population. The rest, if not history, is certainly colorful.

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Dream Catcher


Choose a book at random:
The answer you seek is on page 3,
It is blank,
This means you should keep calm
And carry on.
The toadstools on the kitchen floor are not edible,
They won't harm the dog.
You want the bracket fungus,
I'm not sure which wall it will choose,
But the dream of your father,
That's where you'll find it.