By Eva Dias Costa in Signals — 13 Jun 2025

#9. Including Pauses for Doubt.

A group of well-dressed ants opened a consultancy firm.
They specialised in urgency management.
Their motto: Everything is critical, unless it isn’t.

They faxed invoices to flowers.
Held meetings at the bottom of teacups.
Charged by the minute – including pauses for existential doubt.

On Holy Saturdays, they wore tiny headsets and shouted:
Just circling back! into shells stolen from snails.

A lawyer once tried to ignore them.
She lit a candle.
Unplugged the universe.
Sat very still.

The ants mistook this for an invitation to follow up.

And so they did.