ANTFARM

Excerpt from ANTFARM in War Stories of the Future, written by August Cole

The airframe’s vibration reached him through the pilot couch’s gel padding, familiar as his wife’s snoring. Three days into this sortie, his fifth weeklong mission over Yemen this year, he knew the plane’s patterns of life well. He nodded off, returning to the in-between sleep and wakefulness that he described to his wife as being like “a misty summer dawn with a symphony of cicadas.” Captain Aaron Fung was proud of finding those words for her. The plane’s engines hummed soothingly, and, for now, the fabs in the launch bay were silent. It was a great job for a dreamer. The recruiters should use that one. [©2015 The Atlantic Council/August Cole]

ANTFARM STORYBOARDS

Creative Direction + Production: MBW

Storyboard Artist: Roger Hom