Nina the Ant and the Crooked Crumb Trail

Each morning the ant Nina is asked to carry one small crumb while her cousin is cheered for the great berry, and soon she leaves hers under a leaf.

Faithful In Little Things

In a sunny garden called Clover Corner, there lived a little ant named Nina. Nina was small, even for an ant, and her job in the colony was small too. Each morning, she was asked to carry a single crumb from the edge of the garden path to the colony's storeroom.

One crumb. That was all.

Her cousin Archie, meanwhile, was chosen to help carry the great berry to the Queen's table. Everyone cheered when he marched by.

"Why do I only get crumbs?" Nina sighed, kicking a pebble. "Nobody notices a crumb. If I skipped it, who would even know?"

The next morning, she picked up her crumb, but she took a shortcut and dropped it under a leaf near the entrance, where nobody would look. "There," she muttered. "Close enough."

She did the same the day after, and the day after that. Sometimes she left the crumb halfway. Sometimes she forgot it altogether and spent the morning napping in the sun.

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Each morning the ant Nina is asked to carry one small crumb while her cousin is cheered for the great berry, and soon she leaves hers under a leaf.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.