Tag: Matthew Dexter

  • Fiction: Matthew Dexter’s “The Ant Colony”

    Fiction: Matthew Dexter’s “The Ant Colony”

    The Ant Colony Charles climbs the hill above fat camp and watches the children running between orange cones on the manicured lawns, tiny as insects, limbs jiggling in slow-motion, coaches and counselors screaming obscenities through their megaphones. Fire ants climb Charles’ socks, sting the blond hairs above his ankles. He brushes them from the elastic,…