There are armies out there - vast, uncountable armies - building and defending kingdoms with a frenetic urgency that makes you thank the stars that those six-legged soldiers are actually really tiny. In the pine forests, at the foot of the mountains, are one of Nature’s true spectacles - wood ants.
I have a recurring nightmare. I’m having a midday nap in a pine forest. The next thing I know I’m being squirted with acid from the anal glands of my assailants. My skin starts to dissolve as I’m carried away by hundreds of would-be assassins. I’m then cut up and chewed up, before being sicked up in liquid form, into the waiting mouths of my captors’ larvae. Luckily for me, I’m not a caterpillar, because that’s exactly what happens to…
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Trail United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024