What’s worse than finding a mummy in your breakroom? Finding one - then losing it.
When Kate is uprooted from her familiar world and thrust into a new school in a new town, all she wants is to get through her senior year unnoticed. Instead, she finds herself staying late in the eerie library of the Natural History Museum, unraveling the mysteries of ancient Egypt with a girl named Nat who is just as much an enigma.
But when a 5,000-year-old mummy with a sweet tooth for yogurt decides to join their late-night study sessions, bringing with it a mystery that defies logic and science, Kate and Nat are thrust into a spine-tingling race against time to avoid becoming a permanent exhibit themselves.
Can Kate and Nat outwit a menace five millennia in the making, or will they – like Kate's unopened textbooks – be left in the dust?
This short story was first published in 2021 in Unbound: Stories of Transformation, Love, and Monsters.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
When Kate is uprooted from her familiar world and thrust into a new school in a new town, all she wants is to get through her senior year unnoticed. Instead, she finds herself staying late in the eerie library of the Natural History Museum, unraveling the mysteries of ancient Egypt with a girl named Nat who is just as much an enigma.
But when a 5,000-year-old mummy with a sweet tooth for yogurt decides to join their late-night study sessions, bringing with it a mystery that defies logic and science, Kate and Nat are thrust into a spine-tingling race against time to avoid becoming a permanent exhibit themselves.
Can Kate and Nat outwit a menace five millennia in the making, or will they – like Kate's unopened textbooks – be left in the dust?
This short story was first published in 2021 in Unbound: Stories of Transformation, Love, and Monsters.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Used availability for S E Anderson's Study Night at the Museum