Short stories tagged with Microbiome
Listing 2 stories.
A young woman leading a colony settling on a new moon realizes that she must make an immense sacrifice to ensure her people's survival in an environment teeming with foreign microorganisms.
Can a husband tell that the creature in his bed is actually an alien Mushroom Queen and that his real wife is now a fungus-like entity spreading her mycelium across the states trying to get home? Probably not, but the family dog can. One minute she's dreaming about escaping from her loveless marriage, and the next, she's thrown underground by her mushroom doppelgänger, who is now sleeping with her husband. Can a husband detect that his wife has been replaced by the queen of mushrooms? Probably not, but her clever dog can.