Zoe Cummins

Fungi rule the world and there's no mistake.

Can there be good trees and bad trees?

If two trees fight in a forest?

The tree gives the fungi sugars they require to survive, and the fungi carry messages across the forest.

The shrooms are in cahoots, sis.

The shrooms are in cahoots.

Sitting in that room with my sister, her belief engines on overdrive, citing ominous patterns of people from the bus drivers to the beggars working together.

Chemical and electrical signals carrying messages to and from like nerves.

The flush under her skin, the pulse, the journey from mind to muscle.

Episode idea for Communication and Conspiracy, the West Ford experiment of the 1950s.

They flung all the copper wires into space, or the ionosphere, and the copper wires would orbit the Earth and bounce back sounds.

Maybe find someone to tell me more about that.

My boyfriend and I have the baby.

We're upgraded to partners.

The baby is mostly fine and we'll be fine.

A misdiagnosis or a moment of given grace.

We don't ask.

We take what is given.

My feelings on karma don't change, though, and I fear the future.

Later, we have two babies.