Jack Myers

Every world has a blind spot. We just never realized ours was staring right back at us. We believed we were the apex predators of Earth, completely unaware that our digital addictions were a carefully designed trap-a cosmic lureThe vast technological networks we built became the very spiderweb we blindly walked into, and a quiet, methodical harvest beganBrent and his shattered band of friends are reduced to huddling in dirt holes.
Stripped of the technology and comforts that once made mankind feel untouchable, Brent must venture out into an ash-covered, unrecognizable world just to scavenge for a drop of clean water. No Grain of Sand is a gripping, 2, 000-word science fiction and horror short story that explores the devastating psychological dread of a quiet apocalypse. Discover the terrifying reality of your place in the cosmic food chain.