

“If you can’t see mummy ghosts, then there aren’t any to be seen.” I hardly ever see ghosts that are more than a century or two old.” Then again, there weren’t many white people in the Midwest before that, and maybe all the Native Americans were smart enough not to stick around once they’d died. And they probably didn’t stick around more than a few dozen years after they died. They’re probably in Egypt, not in a museum in Hyde Park. “I take it you can’t find any Egyptian ghosts to talk to.” “Nope.

Crash petted the pocket of his leather jacket as if he was jonesing to have a smoke right then and there. Just being thorough, I guess.” A female security guard watched us with the same expression she probably wore while she was waiting for a load of laundry to dry. “They, uh, thought they’d need this stuff in the afterlife. “What does it say about a culture, that they’re so obsessed with their dead that they go through all this preparation and ritual to preserve the body?” I glanced up at a small sign on the wall I’d noticed that said something about it. The mummified babies were just some brown, withered husks. I thought for a second that he was reading my mind, but then I realized he was talking about the display. I leaned over the display case and stared down through the glass. Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author’s moral rights. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. The best way to do this is with a link to com. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

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