«Sand» is probably not the first thing to come to your mind to complete the sentence «The world is running out of…». And reading a 5000 word story on just that is probably not was gets you overly excited. But trust me on this one.

From Weekly Filet #234, in June 2017.

The world is running out of sand

The New Yorker

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