The Tide Room
A museum archivist finds a basement room that floods at high tide, although it is nowhere near the sea.
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Clare Rooney takes a job cataloguing the basement of a small maritime museum in Hobart. The basement has one locked room. Twice a day, at exactly high tide, water seeps under its door, cold and salty, although the building stands on a hill a kilometre from the harbour. A quiet ghost story about the things the sea gives back.
The first time Clare saw the water, she thought a pipe had burst. It came under the locked door at the end of the basement in a thin, dark line, spreading across the concrete toward her boots. She knelt and touched it. It was cold, and when she put her finger to her tongue, it was salt. The museum stood on Battery Point hill, a kilometre from the harbour and forty metres above it. By the time she came back with a mop and the caretaker, the floor was dry. The caretaker looked at the door and then
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I grew up on a sheep farm near Bothwell, which is about as far from anything as you can get in Tasmania, and I have been scaring my younger brothers since I could talk. Now I work at a maritime museum on the Hobart waterfront, cataloguing things that came out of shipwrecks. Some of them should have stayed there. My horror is slow and quiet. Nobody gets chased with a chainsaw. Something is wrong in the house, and you notice it a little too late. I live in North Hobart with my partner and a greyhound who is afraid of the dark.
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