{"product_id":"children-of-the-spore-t-shirt","title":"Children of the Spore T-shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildren of the Spore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first mushroom appeared in the shower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was no larger than a cocktail olive, red-capped and white-spotted, growing from the chrome seam beneath Captain Rex Fallon’s soap tray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe stared at it while hot water ran down his shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Lola,” he called.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shower door slid open, and Dr. Lola Vane leaned inside wearing silver boots, a crimson minidress, and the expression of a woman who had been interrupted during something more interesting than botany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What is it?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex pointed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola looked at the mushroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen she looked at Rex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You called me into your shower for that?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It wasn’t here yesterday.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Neither was I.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You’re avoiding the scientific question.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m considering the recreational one.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex grinned. Lola smiled back, slowly and dangerously, until the mushroom released a puff of golden dust directly into his face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe sneezed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ship’s alarm began to howl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was how the trouble started aboard the exploration cruiser *Sunbird*, six hours after it landed on the unmapped planet designated Aphrodite Nine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy midnight, mushrooms were growing from the ventilation ducts, the navigation console, the coffee machine, and one of Rex’s boots. They sprouted in brilliant scarlet, violet, turquoise, and gold, transforming the ship’s sterile corridors into a humid underground garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe crew consisted of three people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptain Rex Fallon was broad-shouldered, blond, and dangerously pleased with himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Lola Vane was a xenobiologist whose official uniform had somehow lost most of its fabric during the voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Lieutenant Buddy Crane was a communications officer with a gift for pessimism and a face that suggested he had been born inside his spacesuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy found them in the control room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex stood at the forward window in his red flight jacket. Lola leaned against the navigation table, one leg crossed over the other, studying a mushroom through a magnifying lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We have a situation,” Buddy said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex glanced at the fungal growth spreading across Buddy’s suit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You certainly do.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy looked down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree small orange mushrooms had sprouted from his left shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Oh, come on.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola plucked one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy jumped. “Careful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s harmless.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s growing out of my suit.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That doesn’t make it harmful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It makes it personal.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola rolled the mushroom between her fingers. Golden powder shimmered along its gills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The spores are carrying electrical charges,” she said. “Tiny ones, but patterned.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Language?” Rex asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Maybe.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy stared at her. “The mushrooms are talking?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mushroom on the console made a delicate chiming sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll three turned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother answered from the ceiling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen another from the corridor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin seconds, the ship rang with soft, melodic notes. The sound rose and fell like music heard underwater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola’s eyes widened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“They’re communicating through the hull.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With whom?” Rex asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe planet answered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond the window, immense mushroom caps began to glow across the valley. One after another, they lit beneath the lavender sky, forming rivers of blue and green radiance. Their pulses matched the chiming inside the ship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy backed away from the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I vote we leave.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You always vote to leave,” Rex said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That is why I am still alive.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex moved to the pilot’s chair and pressed the ignition control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe pressed it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe console produced a cheerful chime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Engines are locked,” Buddy said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I noticed.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“By mushrooms.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I noticed that too.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola placed both palms on the navigation table. Fine threads of light moved beneath its surface, tracing the outlines of her fingers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“They’re inside the circuitry.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex came up behind her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How deep?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe looked over her shoulder. “Buy me a drink first.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy groaned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola smiled, but her amusement faded as the glowing threads climbed around her wrists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA voice emerged from the ship’s speakers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was warm, breathy, and female.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Welcome, children.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex looked at Lola.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That wasn’t you?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My voice is lower.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“True.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe speakers whispered again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Welcome home.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe control-room door opened by itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond it, the corridor had vanished beneath a tunnel of luminous fungus. Red caps bloomed from the walls. Pale vines curled through the air. Warm mist rolled across the floor, carrying a perfume of cinnamon, rain, and something sweetly animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy lifted his laser pistol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“No.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex glanced at him. “No what?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“No walking into the glowing mushroom tunnel.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It may be our only way to restore the ship.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It may digest us.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola stepped into the corridor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy stared after her. “Doctor.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe looked back. “It called us children.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Yes.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I want to know whose.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy sighed and brought up the rear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tunnel led out of the *Sunbird* and down into the valley. The planet was warm beneath its pale double moons. Towering mushrooms rose from silver grass, their caps broad enough to shelter cities. Their gills shimmered overhead like chandeliers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTiny lights floated through the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola reached for one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt landed on her fingertip and unfolded into a miniature mushroom with delicate wings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How darling,” she whispered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt kissed her finger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex raised an eyebrow. “I’m beginning to dislike this planet.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Jealous?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Of vegetation? Never.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe winged mushroom drifted toward Lola’s lips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex caught it between two fingers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt squeaked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola laughed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You brute.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m captain. Seduction of my science officer requires clearance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You never asked for clearance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m captain.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy walked past them. “Could we postpone the mating display until after we escape?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glowing path ended at a circular clearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn its center stood a mushroom larger than the *Sunbird*. Its stalk was ivory white, and its cap spread across the sky in bands of crimson and gold. Beneath it waited a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt least, she appeared to be a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was tall and luminous, with long green hair and skin the color of polished bronze. Flowers opened along her shoulders as she moved. Her dress seemed woven from white filaments that shifted like living lace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex stared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola nudged him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Scientific interest?” she asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Entirely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Your science is breathing heavily.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe green-haired woman smiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You came at last.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex stepped forward. “Captain Rex Fallon of the Earth cruiser *Sunbird*.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I know.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Then introductions will be brief.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I am Mother Mycelia.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy muttered, “Of course you are.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe extended a hand toward Rex. A red mushroom blossomed from her palm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Eat.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex looked at Lola.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“She’s the biologist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola examined it. “It may be poisonous.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia turned to her. “Nothing here wishes to harm you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy raised his hand. “The mushrooms seized our engines.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“They wished you to remain.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That is kidnapping.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is hospitality.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola took the mushroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex caught her wrist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We don’t know what it does.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That has never stopped you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Usually I know what I’m kissing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia laughed, and the entire valley laughed with her. Thousands of mushrooms trembled, releasing silver spores into the moonlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola bit into the cap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor several seconds, nothing happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen she gasped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex pulled her close. “Lola?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe looked at him with enormous blue eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I can hear them.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Who?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Everyone.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe spores thickened around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex felt warmth spread through his chest. The valley blurred. Then thoughts began to bloom inside his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe felt Lola’s curiosity, bright and restless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe felt Buddy’s fear, wrapped tightly around a surprising core of courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe felt the planet beneath his boots, not as stone and soil but as an immense web of living threads. The fungal network circled the globe, linking every mushroom, insect, tree, and root.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe heard Mother Mycelia without sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong ago, a human ship had crashed on Aphrodite Nine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts passengers were dying. The planet’s fungal network entered their bodies to repair them. It preserved their memories, altered their cells, and joined them to the living world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey became the first Children of the Spore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ancient colonists had not disappeared. They were everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the grass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the glowing caps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the warm intelligence beneath the soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You’ve been waiting for humans,” Lola said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia nodded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“For centuries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To join you?” Rex asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To renew us.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy lowered his pistol. “What does that mean?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia’s smile deepened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our human inheritance grows thin. We remember desire, laughter, jealousy, music, bad decisions and midnight kisses. But memory is not experience.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe moved closer to Rex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We require fresh humanity.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola folded her arms. “You want our genes.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“And your company.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex looked around at the luminous valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How much company?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mushrooms chimed suggestively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy’s face went pale. “Captain, I strongly recommend departure.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia reached up and touched Rex’s cheek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Your ship is repaired.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind them, the *Sunbird’s* engines roared to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You are free to go,” she said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola studied her. “But you believe we’ll stay.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“For one night.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex looked at Lola.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola looked at Rex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy looked at both of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“No,” he said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex removed his flight jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy pointed at him. “Absolutely not.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s warm.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is not that warm.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola slipped off one silver boot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy shut his eyes. “I work with animals.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia clapped her hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusic rolled across the valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe giant mushroom caps opened, revealing platforms lit by golden spores. Human figures emerged from the forest, descendants of the lost colonists. They wore bright fabrics, flowers, jewels, and very little else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone handed Buddy a sparkling blue drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe sniffed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What is this?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fermented moon nectar,” said a beautiful woman with violet eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy took a cautious sip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis expression changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That’s excellent.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe took his hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I thought you wanted to leave,” Rex called.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuddy straightened his shoulders. “I have reconsidered the tactical situation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe night became a festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere was dancing beneath the giant caps, feasting beside pools of glowing water, and music that seemed to enter through the skin. Lola danced barefoot in her crimson dress while silver spores glittered in her hair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex watched her from beneath a luminous tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia stood beside him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You desire her,” she said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m trying to maintain professional discipline.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You are failing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I know.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola crossed the clearing toward him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You’ve been staring.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m captain. Observation is part of command.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe placed her hands on his chest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Then observe this.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe kissed him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fungal network flashed with delighted color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery mushroom in the valley released a chorus of approving chimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex pulled back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Do they always watch?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola glanced around. “Apparently.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That’s unsettling.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I find it encouraging.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe kissed him again, and the mushrooms erupted in golden light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch later, Rex awakened beneath the vast red cap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola slept beside him, wrapped in his flight jacket. Buddy was sprawled nearby wearing a wreath of blue mushrooms and snoring happily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia stood at the edge of the clearing, watching the dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex joined her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first sun rose in a wash of turquoise light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You are leaving,” she said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We have a report to make.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Will Earth send others?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That depends on what we report.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia considered this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What will you tell them?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex glanced back at Lola.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That the planet is hospitable.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“And the spores?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mostly harmless.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA faint red mushroom had appeared behind his right ear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMother Mycelia smiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You carry us now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRex touched it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Is it permanent?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Nothing is permanent.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mushroom vanished beneath his fingers, leaving a warm tingle in his skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe *Sunbird* lifted from Aphrodite Nine before noon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola sat beside Rex at the controls, one boot missing. 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