We Are the Ants
Shaun David Hutchinson 
Simon Pulse
<p><br>Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.<br>    <br>Only he isn't sure he wants to.<br><br>After all, life hasn't been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer's. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend's suicide last year.<br><br>Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him.<br><br>But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is...</p>