By Brooke Larsen
7273 B.R.
I am five and my dad runs behind me as I rapidly pedal a hot pink bike that’s too big for me. We loop the Grant Village Campground in Yellowstone National Park. Towering lodgepole pines surround us and the bitter cold Yellowstone Lake glitters through campfire smoke as the sun sets. Normally my training wheels stabilize me, but today we take them off.
Before we leave we buy a home. We mumble the news, we feel some shame. Inherited wealth; stolen land. But still: I harvest garlic, and I am happy.
Our tenants are Lauren, Easton, and one million sugar ants.
If you Google ‘sugar ant,’ this is what the internet algorithms will give you:
How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants in the House | Terminix
Best Ways to Get Rid of Sugar Ants – GETRIDOFTHiNGS.COM
Get Rid of Sugar Ants in 3 Steps
Three pages of this, and probably more. Human curiosity about this ant has one focus: Getting Rid.
