Atlanta’s Guide to Cryptids by Kevin A Davis EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Kevin A Davis
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Heather Norris corralled three dawdling third graders from her class
toward the Tutankhamen exhibit where her other students chattered.
A typically sedate and quiet woman in her day-to-day life, she’d jogged
around the museum enough that sweat dotted her forehead under brown
hair, and her blue blouse stuck to her sides with a rising hint of funk.
Her voice, hoarse from too much use, grated with a version of her
teacher’s tone. “Stephanie, come back to the group. We’ll all be going to
see the Nile after we learn about King Tut.” An earthy odor hung in the air,
likely from the desert sand ahead.
Stephanie’s dark, braided pigtails swung as she glanced back with a
smile, pointing past the small Egyptian boat and fishermen. “A naked
mummy.”
Heather frowned as she found a gray man stepping from a hidden door
at the far edge of the exhibit. That corner had little more than sand and
plants, as if hinting at the edge of an oasis in the desert. From her vantage,
fake palms hid all but his splotchy face and sunken eyes. Her pulse rose as
she hesitantly stepped toward Stephanie. “It’s just . . .” The museum must
have had some interactive event planned.
His lips peeled up from his top teeth in an odd way. His arms and legs
moved in halting, ungainly jerks so that his gait appeared disturbingly
inhuman. Heather reached Stephanie and paused as she aimed a hand
toward the nine-year-old’s shoulder. The gray man stumbled another step,
leaving the sand-colored door ajar and providing ample proof that he wore
no clothes. “Sh—” Heather cut off her curse and dropped a tense hand onto
Stephanie’s shoulder. “C’mon.” A quick search proved there wasn’t one
member of the museum’s staff, or anyone other than her students, in the
room.
The man moved erratically as Heather turned Stephanie toward the
class. Dark blotches covered gray skin. His head swiveled unnaturally and
locked on her. Shriveled gray lumps drew back into his skull, creating dark
pits which replaced his eyes. Heather gasped; panic climbed into her chest.
“Back to the . . .” She couldn’t think where they’d just been. “Ice cream —
in the lobby.” She gestured toward the museum’s wide arch of an exit from
the Egyptology exhibit. “Hurry.”
The gray man, a walking corpse, stumbled toward her. His legs spread,
he didn’t move quickly at first. His mouth opened wider causing the top lip,
stuck to the bottom, to rip more and expose gray teeth and dark gums.
Heather shrieked. Stephanie stood at her side, entranced. The rest of the
class had turned abnormally silent.
“Run,” Heather whispered.
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