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The Statue
Summer
I PUSH my glasses higher up my nose and glance over the small group of
tourists in front of me. Like most of the people that find their way into the
dusty depths of Hopkins’ Museum of the Strange, their expressions are a
mix of intrigue, curiosity, and… disgust.
The kid beside me, who couldn’t be more than five years old, presses
his hands against the glass display case. “That’s a big tooth. Does it have a
story too?”
I smile at him. “Everything here has a story.”
“A dragon’s tooth, eh?” the kid’s dad says as he reads the label card out
loud. He chuckles under his breath, making his skepticism obvious. “It
looks like a cross between a megalodon and a sabretooth fossil… What
creature is it really from?”
“A dragon,” I state dryly. “Just like the card says.” The dad holds back a
laugh as I continue. “The Helmsdale Dragon was found off the coast of
Scotland.” Pulling out my keys, I unlock the cabinet and grab the faded
polaroid pictures tucked behind the tooth, showing the excavation of the
dragon’s skull. I give them to the father and son. “No one knows where the
rest of the head is. It vanished shortly after its discovery in 1983, though
several of its teeth are still in circulation. There’s a running conspiracy that
the dragon’s skull was seized by the Vatican.”
The boy gawks at the pictures as he and his father flip through them.
Several of the other tourists join us, looking over their shoulders.
“Dragons aren’t real,” the father says. He hands me back the polaroids,
his eyes threatening to roll into the back of his head.
My smile turns saccharine. “Some would beg to differ.”
They amble off to inspect the next curiosity that grabs their attention,
and I return the polaroids to the display case. Every day is like this—the
same people, just in different shapes and sizes, filtering in here hoping for
magic, supernatural, and above all, the mystery of both. They’re equally
unwilling to believe any of it, despite the proof all around them. Hopkins’
Museum of the Strange is full of things that don’t belong in our reality.
It’s the stories that actually draw the few visitors in, not so much the
objects themselves. Anything could be strange… if there’s a bizarre story
attached to it. It took me several months of working here to figure this out
because my boss wasn’t going to connect the dots for me. Without a proper
story, this dusty old museum would never stay in business. I’m sure of it.
Because like ninety-nine percent of our customers, I’m still skeptical.
And I work here.
But it’s my job to pretend I believe everything I say. It’s how we make
money, and with only a handful of tourists coming in each day, I fear each
paycheck will be my last.
It doesn’t help that the museum is in Elmstitch, a small rural town
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