anthill, the largest anthill he had ever seen. He didn’t understand how he had missed, it was about eight feet wide, and he began to feel ants wriggling into his shoe. In a full panic, Jonah screamed, and at that moment felt the crashing of the gigantic grasshopper upon him. The weight was enough to sink Jonah past his knees into the anthill, and when the grasshopper jumped off Jonah it sunk him further. Jonah noticed the familiar arc of the grasshopper’s flight as he held himself out of the anthill only by his arms now. The ground he gripped fell apart and the more he struggled the more he sank. It never occurred to him to be still. Uncountable quantities of ants fell from his hair to his face and as he wiped them away, batches and batches more covered him.
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