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| "The Egyptian Mythology Murders" - Amazon Kindle |
5-star - Amazon UK
A female mummy from ancient Egypt
lay outstretched inside a hospital scanning machine.
The British Museum had brought the
mummy to St. Thomas’ Hospital for a non-invasive examination of
the body beneath its wrappings.
“We’ll begin by doing the head and
neck in two millimetre slices. I’m just relieved that nobody will have to give
this patient the bad news that she’s terminal.”
The radiologist had made the joke to
bridge the jarring disconnect between ancient death, wrapped up in magical
spells, and the modern day machinery of medical imaging.
The radiation scan - at a dose lethal
for the living - blasted through the linen windings. It was like a penetration
of sunlight warming the bones after the ache of the desert night.
The machine hummed. A spinning
cylinder curved around the mummy’s head like a night sky arching over Egypt.
The sand-dry cells of the body,
spread out in an undulating landscape on the CT tray, stirred in a sudden
breath.
Life! Resurgent life! It eddied,
thickened, mounted in force, blowing, gusting, then blasting through the mummy
like a desert sand storm.(Excerpt - The Egyptian Mythology Murders AMAZON KINDLE and paperback)
* (Example of my writer's pre-novel storyboard approach before I write, using a combination of my own Egypt photos, scrap art and googled images)
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