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Mushrooms of the Underworld

19/09/2025
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The living do not belong in the underworld. But all the paths of escape are horrific, save for one…the mushroom.

Genre: Mythology

 

Excerpt:
There were a number of ways for the passage to be made—flesh-wrenching spells, maps that could only be read by those who had spent a lifetime studying magic, or aid given by the sovereign’s own siblings to some favored mortal, all of which were giving way to a new and much easier means…mushrooms.

  

What story or stories am I revisiting in this episode?
Each Season 8 episode is a standalone story, but it’s connected to or inspired by a previous story through a character, a place, an object, a concept, a continuation of events (ahem, sequel), and so on.

Two stories inspired this one. One where a wizard uses a special mushroom to brew a rare spell, “A Potion of Uncertain Fortune.” And another where a young man on a quest wakes up in the middle of a fairy ring, that is, a ring of mushrooms, “The Isle of Mist and Gloom.”

 

MY FIRST BOOK (yay)
Ever wonder how I’ve gotten all these hundreds of stories written?  I have a method. And I talk all about it in my book called Fictioneer’s Field Guide: A Game Plan for Writing Short Stories.

It’s now available from Amazon as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover.

You can also get there from my Store page: STORYFEATHER STORE

 

The Store page also has sign-up forms for my two email newsletters: 
Storyfeather Gazette (if you’d like to keep up with the fiction I create)
Fictioneer’s Field Guide (if you’d like writing tips and guidance from me)

Choose what you want. (Either way, you're choosing high jinks.)

 


MERCH!
Interested in merch, like mugs and notebooks, featuring my artwork?
Please visit my Store page for info on where you can buy: STORYFEATHER STORE

 

 

CREDITS
Story: “Mushrooms of the Underworld” Copyright © 2021 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production:  Nila L. Patel

 

Music:
“Scroll of the wind walker” by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Intro & Outro)
“Abstract Vision #5” by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)

 

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)
“Whispers”
“Between two worlds”
“Underworld”
“Scroll of the wind walker”
“Inspector”
“To Falgalown”
“A place where evil lives”
“Evidence”
“The forest”
“Ancient gods”
“Compass”

 

All these tracks are part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

 

Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle, and GameDevMarket, and Soundly (through Hindenburg)
Vocal effects created with Audacity
Changes made to the musical tracks? Just cropping of some to align with my narration.

 

Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov at gamedevmarket.net
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

 

Episode Art Description:
Digital drawing. A humanoid figure at center, from the waist up, wearing a cap and opaque lacy veil, with two mushroom caps emerging as sleeves from the left arm. The figure’s right hand is raised up, fingers snapping. Patches of different types of mushrooms grow on either side of the figure that represent or resemble real mushrooms: inky cap, cage fungus, split gill, pixie cup lichen, and others. Watermark of “Storyfeather” along the figure’s right forearm. The rectangular image is made square with top and bottom borders with cloudy swirls of color that match the hues of the main image.

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