Innocence/Prejudice
The first of two stories from Mouse Tourmaline. It comes with the following note from Mouse: “This one’s a true story. Any Brits are welcome to figure out what we were
watching.”
This show last aired twenty years ago.
Now I sit with him. On screen, sunlit, alone: a monster, dying. In its past, dark destruction.
Innocent, I see nothing but a lost and lonely creature, far from its one-time home.
He sits astounded, wordless, as his daughter cries over the terror of his childhood nightmares.
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