The Shape of Water: An American Fairy Tale
We don’t have magic in America. The first European settlers made sure of that. It was the dawn of the Age of Reason, and there was no room in the New World for old superstitions. The wizards were crushed, the witches burned, the grimoires replaced with bibles. The magics of the native peoples were almost forgotten in the face of genocide and cultural assimilation. The songs and stories of the Africans stolen for forced labor were wrapped in chains and tossed into the Atlantic. And for centuries, downtrodden immigrants were robbed of last names and customs. Not that we...
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