Shrooms of Benares
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Benares: planet of fungi on the far frontier. Mushrooms grow taller than trees, fungal creatures roam the landscape...and a terrible new spore turns humans into the walking dead. The one man left alive, a genetically modified super space priest named Father Obregon, sets out to confront this threat and save the woman he loves. But the deadly fungal spore has other plans in store, plans that will push Father Obregon to his limits and test whether his faith can sustain him in the darkest corner of deep space among soulless aliens who have no capacity for mercy. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning storyteller Robert Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch.
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Shrooms of Benares - Robert Jeschonek
Shrooms of Benares
A SCIENCE FICTION TALE
ROBERT JESCHONEK
Blastoff BooksContents
Also by Robert Jeschonek
Shrooms of Benares
About the Author
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SHROOMS OF BENARES
Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek
www.thefictioneer.com
Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin
www.benbaldwin.co.uk
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved by the author.
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Shrooms of Benares
Father Gavín Obregón lifted the hem of his black shirt, peeled back a flap of skin just below his bottom left rib, and drew out three fresh-baked wafers of communion host from the cavity there, still warm from his flesh.
The body of Christ, given up for you.
Father Obregón said the words softly as he held up one of the round white wafers between his thumb and forefinger.
Piotr Punzak, a squat farmer with shaggy brown hair and beard, stood before him in the dusty farmyard. To one side, the gleaming silver domes of his farmhouse and barn sprawled in the mid-morning light...light cast not from a sun, but from huge fungal sun-blooms drifting across the sky.
In the other direction, the rolling hills were carpeted with fields of morel, boletus, oyster, and matsutake mushrooms, ready for harvest. The fruits of planet Benares, like all native life on the frontier planet, were fungus through and through. In all the world, only the human settlers could claim non-fungal origins.
As a rough breeze shivered the nearby morels and matsutakes, farmer Piotr tipped his head back. Amen.
Just as he opened his mouth for the host, one of the nube oveja--the self-propelled fungal cloud sheep
herding in the sky overhead--slid away, allowing the light from the nearest sun-bloom to cast his face bright gold.
Father Obregón placed the host on Piotr's tongue. Piotr closed his mouth and bowed his head.
Then, it was time for the wine. Father Obregón turned over his right arm and popped the tiny cartilage pour-spout free from his wrist. "Blood of Christ,