Welcome to The Daily Aftershock Writing Prompt—a daily invitation to write from the edges of aftermath, memory, rupture, and repair.

Each day, you'll receive a short, charged prompt designed to crack something open. There are no rules, only resonance. Use these however you need: to begin a poem, to open your diary, to find your voice again.

Beneath every forest is a hidden network. Mycelium which are connecting trees, transferring nutrients, passing signals, even warning of danger. A secret lifeline pulsing underground.

Today, write about your beneath.

What networks keep you alive that others don’t see?

What quiet systems of care, survival, memory, or grief thread beneath your surface?

You can write in the voice of the mycelium.

Or as the tree that thought it was alone—until something reached it.

Or as yourself, realising your survival depended on invisible threads.

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