The Unsinkable Supernatant

"The ice was strange. He felt warmth along his arms as he approached it.

At first, he wondered if it was not ice, but a new food chemical he did not know. Science had taken off at such a remarkable clip in the new century, he learned something new every day. The men handling the ice, however, wore gloves, as would be expected.

He held his hand half a foot from a block on the top of the stack. Heat poured off the ice like it was a stove top. The block began to move toward his outstretched hand, and the other men in the refrigerator room looked at him with shock.

Howard pulled his hand back and turned away, feeling like a fool.

The work here was decidedly not for him.

He withdrew to find duties elsewhere.

He began at the furnaces."

In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a bankrupt aristocrat follows a dark trail of revenge to the Boiler Room Number 6 on the grand ship. What he doesn't know is that something even darker is trailing after him.

Commemorating the 100th observance of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.