Oscar at the Lab
OSCAR HAD FINISHED the daily water sample analyses and the somewhat lighter sample load of microbiological tests. He finally had some time to spare to examine the mystery fungus that had so far been present at each of the murder scenes in town.
The fungus was an odd organism. Oscar wasn't even sure that it was a real fungus since it acted almost as a sessile, rooted animal. Of course, it was best defined as a fungus, since it aggressively grew hyphae and created bundles of them that formed mycelium, or the more root-like rhizomorphs.
The major disturbing fact that Oscar had found about the fungus is that it was extremely aggressive, and grew very fast. Some single fungus growths are thousands of years old and cover hundreds of acres of land. At the rate this fungus grew
