These aren't the stories your mother told you.

No, these are the other stories.

The Ever Stories. Unravelled Written by Daniel Wilcox, narrated by Josh Curran.

The smell reminded him of his parents' loft around Christmas time, of dust and chill and old,

a vast contrast to where he had been just a half hour ago, melting under the glare of the desert's midday sun.

It's stinky!

Gideon's little sister, Carmine complained. She clutched the decrepit material

of the bunny rabbit she had adopted as her conjoined twin. One of its eyes, holding on to a bare

piece of thread, the other merely annexed that their mother had stitched together after a failed

attempt at removing the stench

of vomit and baby shit from the material in the washing machine. Stinky, stinky, stinky. I don't like

this, mummy. Their mother cast a sideways glance at their father, rolled her eyes, crouched to Carmine's level.

It's supposed to smell like that. Everything in here is old, like older than anything you've ever

seen in your life. Older than you and daddy? Their father laughed. Maybe not as old as mummy. Gideon hardly paid attention as

Carmine exploded into a fit of giggles beneath their mother's fingers. He had been in awe of the

pyramids ever since he had seen them in the travel catalogue. Ever since he had begged his school history teacher to tell them all about the ancient Egyptians

so that he could find out about the strange world he would soon be visiting with his parents.

He had heard of mummies and Sphinxes and sarcophagi through television programs,

but had never once even considered the possibility that they would be real.

As real as the withered corpse of the mummy standing behind the velvet ropes in front of him

now.

He stared, unblinking, taking it all in.

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