Horror Trope:
artifact of doom
Current Event: A
real-life, right now mummy kidnapping! http://www.examiner.com/art-in-new-york/ancient-egyptian-artifacts-discovered-smuggling-bust
Oh, we LOVE our
mommies…er…mummies!
100 pieces of King
Tutankhamen’s funerary stuff, as well as a bunch of “fake stuff” (they call
them replicas) is currently on display here at the Science Museum of Minnesota
– which is what’s inspiring THIS post.
So OBVIOUSLY,
the stolen sarcophagi (which, BTW, in Latin means “flesh eater”…ew…) are bad
luck for the New York antique dealers who went down in the bust. So far, the
curse of THESE mummies hasn’t reached the Jordanian collector being sought
after by his countrymen.
But let’s say
that he made a clean get away and he’s tipping a few cold Mountain Dews in his
air-conditioned house in Jordan even as I write this. He’s pocketed his
finder’s fee and he figures he’s home free and is just opening the file on his
computer for his next heist. It picks up a virus like so many other computers and
his AVAST program supposedly eats it up.
The next time
his fourteen-year-old son, Itamar goes online to update his Facebook and chat
with his friends all over the planet, the computer virus from the sarcophagi takes
a little leap from the hard drive, onto his hand and after he’s done with his
session, he yawns and rubs his eyes, passing a biological virus to the moist
membranes of his eyes.
Late in the
morning – because his dad is pounding on the door to wake him up he rubs his
eyes and notices his vision is a little foggy. He tried to tell his dad to
knock it off, but all he could do was moan.
That sounded WAY
too much like a sound he’d make when he was...He covered his mouth in horror,
sitting up in bed. He didn’t notice anything except that the hand in front of
his face was wrapped in dark brown bandages…
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