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“Stemming the Tide” by Simon Strantzas

Posted on June 8, 2022

A misanthropic man and his partner go to the Hopewell Rocks on the Bay of Fundy to watch the tide, and other horrors, rush in.

This story has echoes of “Ringing the Changes” by Robert Aickman, but the protagonists appear at the end rather than the beginning of their relationship. It does a good job of building up the dread.

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