Amritesh Mukherjee
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Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, edited by Olivia Kidula and Somto Ihezue, rises from precisely those fluid, shifting shapes of reality.
What if trees held thoughts like roots? What if rivers carried emotions? What if the mountains dreamed? What if nature itself was alive in the truest sense of the word? Such is the premise at the root of Vardhini Amin’s The Forestborns.
They’re variants, divergent evolutions of the same genetic code, reflections from different mirrors: one cracked with doubt, the other warped with irony. To experience both is to see how storytelling can stretch and transform a single idea into two wildly divergent truths, each brilliant in its own right. Each version orbits the same existential sun but burns with different fire.
Close your eyes and think. Think of words as living beings. Not the living, breathing entities that can be meek or overbearing as we know them in our minds, but physical, sentient beings with emotions, personalities, and speech.
