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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #AntsAunt

“Don't sweat the little details.”
Gulliver's Travels* #quote


      Today I went to the costuming club. I think I'll be attending it when I can. I learned some things that may help with the costume father and I are working on. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

Ant's Aunt


      Family relations are quite the terrible thing to some insects. One little ant named Sally(Her true name a bunch of ant pheromones, but we'll translate it as that) learned that one day when she saw the feud begin between her mother and her aunt. Though the mother and aunt never met and merely laid eggs. Two rival queens each born at a colony far away now made theirs close to each other.
      Sally saw the two colonies fight over food. Her sisters would kill her cousins. So much death, but that is the way of ants and the survival of the fittest. The fighting saw an end though when a strange natural disaster came in. Sally didn't know what a bulldozer was but a human home replaced the other colony and now created a new source of food as well. Later they would deal with poisons and traps, but the immediate threat of the ant's aunt to the ant was gone.
      As generations went on, humans or no humans in the area, ants would spread. Queens would make their colonies and little ants like Sally would have to deal with their aunts and cousins for the scraps of food the world would offer them.

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