“Expendable” July 1953

An unnamed man scurries about terrified of insect informers. The ants are gods. They inhabited the earth before man came from another planet; it has been war between them ever since. The ants have been kept at bay until now. But the spiders, along with the birds and a few others, oppose the ants. There is a chance they may be able to save man … in general that is, as a species. Our poor unnamed character, however, is doomed.