A Network Beneath the Soil
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https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40456Keywords:
fungi, mycorrhizal, transformation, human, escapismAbstract
A Network Beneath the Soil is a short fiction story that follows a young person who is struggling with their existence in a heteropatriarchal, colonial, racial capitalist society. They transform into part of the Amanita muscaria’s mycelium, a network of fungal threads that form a symbiotic relationship with the roots of plant organisms in the forest. The character is presented with a choice: to abandon their humanity and become fungi, or continue to exist as a human. A Network Beneath the Soil looks toward mycorrhizal fungi to express what we, as humans, might learn from the symbiotic relationships that occur below the surface of the Earth.
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Barron, G. (2014). Mushrooms of Ontario and eastern Canada (2nd ed.). Partners Publishing.
Rampolli, F. I., Kamler, P., Carlino, C. C., & Bedussi, F. (2021). The deceptive mushroom: Accidental Amanita muscaria poisoning. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 8(2), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.12890/2021_002212 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12890/2021_002212
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