Thanks for the great suggestions by all. Perhaps at some point it will come to me.


The best suggestion yet, even if it is not the story I'm thinking of. A good enough suggestion that I will have to find and read that one! The story I am thinking of is told in the omniscient third party voice and ends with the observation that the ants are building that tower to try and find out what happened to "ant god" and speak to him. The author concludes that the thought of that scares him. It's a bitch that I can recall so much about the story, but not a clue as to title or author.