Field Guide to the Haunted Forest (Haunted Forest Trilogy)

by Jarod K. Anderson

If you write out the basic facts of trees, but framed as technology, it sounds like impossible sci-fi nonsense. Self-replicating, solar-powered machines that synthesize carbon dioxide and rainwater into oxygen and sturdy building materials on a planetary scale.

You were a part of the sky on loan to a body. A part of the sea that awoke to thought. A part of the Earth who borrowed a name. The essential piece of you that lingers is the love and knowledge that you set in motion while you moved through the waking world.

You are nature and nature will go on, but there is kindness that only you can choose to bring to the world.

You are the mountain, but awake. You are the rain, but breathing. You are the forest, but unanchored. You are the soil, but with choice. You are the sunlight, but dreaming. Soon, you will be these things again. Mountain. Rain. Forest. Sunlight. So, what will you do until then?