skopia
Egypt's instructions for the dead, copied onto papyrus and buried with the body. Your heart is weighed against the feather of truth, and one spell begs it not to testify against you.
Chanted to the newly dead across the forty-nine days between one life and the next, Tibetan Buddhism's manual for dying insists that the radiant and monstrous deities arriving are the mind's own projections.
Looking for the father he never met, a man walks into a Mexican town where everyone he speaks to is dead. Voices drift free of their bodies, and magical realism follows.