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

Synopsis: The Dust 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