The map illustrating your story appears to show that the ants have eaten the entire border between Mississippi and Alabama, creating the super-state of Missabama.

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Corruption is a theme that leaches into the story from the bottom up: the ants, the immediate jungle conflict, the invasiveness of Western society.

ECONOMIST: The call of the Amazon

"You get attacked in the night by biting ants and cockroaches running around, " he yawns and smiles as he tells me his story.

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