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The Tale of the Sands is a Sufi teaching tale which I retold some years ago for submission to an online competition. The voice tone has a trance-voice quality (intended) and the story explores age old themes of identity and impermanence from, I believe, an animistic perspective, although clearly anthropomorphising the protagonists for the purposes of the story.