Ants of Uranus!Randy Blazak
It had to be a symptom of global climate change. You never saw ants this early in the year. It was still winter. The ants don’t start their annual invasion until early summer. But things were changing. Winters in the Pacific Northwest were no longer a constant barrage of freezing rain. The snowpack suffered but people were happy to have whole blocks of sunny days in January.
None of that mattered to Christopher Heston.
There were a dozen ants zig-zagging across his granite kitchen countertop. They were tiny and blended in with the pattern of the stone, so at first he thought he was seeing things as the black bits quivered with motion.
“What the hell? Joanna!” he yelled into the bedroom. “Did you know we have ants in the kitchen?”
His wife was in their bed,
