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Fiction

The Law Pebble

William Simpson watches a small society suffer a small catastrophe.

There was once a queen of an ant colony who grew exceedingly wise. She built an anthill larger than the nests of her ancestors, and the trails of her colony extended for hundreds of feet in many directions. Everyday, she fared sumptuously on the choicest morsels from far and wide.

As it happened, the anthill had been built beneath the floorboards of a large bakery – one of the largest in the land. The bakery was so large that the ants had never been outside it.

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