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The Dust

Brian Evenson

First published 2013
Type Short Fiction

<em>The Dust</em> follows a group of men in some futuristic science fiction influenced environment that have been sent to an unnamed moon, planet, or asteroid to mine for an unspecified compound. Their mining operation is quite isolated and it will take months before others will come to relieve them. They are kept alive by a bulky air filtration system, but as time passes a fine dust begins to enter the station owing to its small particles that are readily able to pass through the filters. As the dust becomes more and more pervasive, strange things start to happen in the station and no one knows who to blame. -- from a review

First published in McSweeney's Issue 45 (Winter 2013)

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2013 Cover McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Winter 2013 McSweeney's Books MAGAZINE 243
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