Wisps of Humanity

Nine billion souls. Every species on Earth. One final, desperate Hail Mary. For three decades, an AI has tried to engineer a peaceful coexistence between humanity and Earth after preventing a human-caused extinction level event. Put into stasis, humans have all been living in a simulation. Every single test failed, poisoned by human greed, class warfare, and systemic exploitation. Now, the AI is pulling the plug, locking each of the remaining population into an interspecies territorial death game. Clark didn't ask to be drafted into the swarm, but it was another Monday morning to him. Still, he had just finished his internship, but now was trapped inside a dystopian insect hive where basic survival requires hitting impossible quotas and dodging mind-control broadcasts. He realizes quickly that the only way out is up, but three queen bees with some very human tendencies stand in his way to get to the top. To keep himself from becoming a plaything or worse, Clark must build a plan in secret, collect allies, and climb the ultimate cutthroat corporate ladder. Welcome to the hive. Try not to die on your first coffee break.{P.S. there is no sex described or anything like that. It is all fade to black.}