Silt

"The hunger starts in the teeth. It ends in the bone."

In the drought-choked town of Oakhaven, the earth has finally broken. A violent earthquake has exposed a vein of oily, jet-black silt from the planet's deepest crust. It isn't alive, and it isn't sentient-but it is addictive.

Arthur, a soil scientist sent to investigate the failing crops, finds a community gripped by a lethal craving. The residents aren't just starving; they are compulsively consuming the black earth. As the silt enters t...