A single ant named Madi tries to overcome the challenges of moving a mountain of sugar, and later, her colony faces a flood that threatens their stored food.
Marinel Marasigan: Imagine if: *The Ant and the Spilled Sugar*
One hot morning in Batangas, a single ant named Madi found a mountain. It was just a teaspoon of sugar someone dropped by the sari-sari store, but to her it looked like Everest.
She tried to carry a grain alone. Too heavy. She tried dragging it.
Marinel Marasigan: *The Ant and the Spilled Sugar — Part 2*
Three days after the sugar haul, the rain came.
Water pooled at the colony entrance and started seeping into the tunnels. The rice grains and sugar they’d stored were in the lowest chamber.
