Scifi short story about janitorial work and interdimensional travel

[buttonsbeadslace]

Google has failed me, so I'm turning to you guys :) I first read this story a few years ago, online. I thought it was in Strange Horizons but maybe not? It's about a research facility where some sort of experimentation with space and time causes a certain hallway in the facility to fill up with mud and gore at regular intervals. It's told from the point of view of the woman hired to clean the hallway. She has an advanced degree and could get a job doing something more glamorous, but they pay her a lot because she's the only person they trust to go in that hallway and not mess with any Things Humankind Was Not Meant To Understand that she might see there.

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[archangelbeth]

That sounds like it could be one of Charles Stross' Laundry Files books/short stories?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files

I haven't actually read much of those, though, so I could be very wrong. Good luck!

[buttonsbeadslace]

Thank you for the suggestion! From the Wikipedia article, I can see why you'd suggest it, but it looks like that series has mostly novels and only a few short stories, and none of the short stories seem to match. I'm pretty sure this was a short story I read online, and not part of a larger book.