🔊📘Space Ants 7: Queen and Colony

The Seventh part of a short story series about the plucky creatures we find under our feet. But imagined as a convergently evolved alien species living in the rings of some distant gas giant. I have always been fascinated by ants and my children love to watch them go about their industry. The children inspired me to write this story, though I would not say it is a kid's story. Other influences were the r/HFY themes on reddit. Of humans being awesome, surviving, and dominating. This is like r/HFY for ants. Also on Royal Roads: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/80485/space-ants
Background photo by Bill Schmoker (PolarTREC 2015), Courtesy of ARCUS

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