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...--/^£ i used to be a goth, in my youth, doing #&£^/--...
....--/^£& crimes mostly from or in my beloved and &£^/--....
.....--/^£ trusted car, and sometimes my mothers £^/--.....
......--/^ barn. we lived just outside town, a ^/--......
.....--/^£ grove at the end of a dirt road, and £^/--.....
....--/^£& the barn was placed so you could just &£^/--....
...--/^£ make out the surrounding fields through #&£^/--...
..--/^£# the trees. ##&£^/--..
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..--/^£# my car was black and loud, both the ##&£^/--..
...--/^£ engine and the way the parts didn't #&£^/--...
....--/^£& really stick together. i took my &£^/--....
.....--/^£ crimefriend for rides, in the dark, the £^/--.....
......--/^ eternal dark that seemed to surround ^/--......
.....--/^£ us. she seemed to cast this veil over £^/--.....
....--/^£& everything. her black skirt reached to &£^/--....
...--/^£ her knees but then somehow also back #&£^/--...
..--/^£# around, enveloping all my memories of ##&£^/--..
.--/^£## our time together. ###&£^/--.
..--/^£# ##&£^/--..
...--/^£ there was blood everywhere. sometimes #&£^/--...
....--/^£& the blood was her red lipstick or her &£^/--....
.....--/^£ checkered shirt. she was on television. £^/--.....
......--/^ we did crime, and we made weird ^/--......
.....--/^£ structures in the barn, tall pillars of £^/--.....
....--/^£& dark wood, ladders and plateaus, fires &£^/--....
...--/^£ and fairy lights. we would sleep there #&£^/--...
..--/^£# and drink there and she would go in the ##&£^/--..
.--/^£## television. ###&£^/--.
..--/^£# ##&£^/--..
...--/^£ and then the sun came out, and she went #&£^/--...
....--/^£& away. everything changed... i yearned, &£^/--....
.....--/^£ and the world became dull around me. £^/--.....
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.....--/^£ i stopped doing crime, except when £^/--.....
....--/^£& necessarry. things somehow seemed like &£^/--....
...--/^£ they were allright, moulded in place, #&£^/--...
..--/^£# and i loathed it ------ i missed her ##&£^/--..
.--/^£## so much. ###&£^/--.
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.....--/^£ i searched for her, but nobody had any £^/--.....
....--/^£& memories of her. not so much of me &£^/--....
...--/^£ either, from the time we were together. #&£^/--...
..--/^£# my mother said i kept to myself in the ##&£^/--..
.--/^£## barn, or in the car. ###&£^/--.
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...--/^£ sometimes i could still see her #&£^/--...
....--/^£& flashing by on the tv in the barn. &£^/--....
.....--/^£ everything was black then, for a £^/--.....
......--/^ moment. i remembered her laugh and knew ^/--......
.....--/^£ we had done crimes together, that it £^/--.....
....--/^£& had been real... &£^/--....
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....--/^£& i died by getting shot in the head &£^/--....
.....--/^£ while ramming the fence to a military £^/--.....
......--/^ facility. by this time they had been ^/--......
.....--/^£ chasing me for days. i lost control £^/--.....
....--/^£& over the car, crashed it into a rock &£^/--....
...--/^£ wall and flew out the windshield. #&£^/--...
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.--/^£## and then i got up, and looked around. ###&£^/--.
..--/^£# it was dark, where it previously had ##&£^/--..
...--/^£ been a bright day. around me where #&£^/--...
....--/^£& dozens of crashed cars, all my car, &£^/--....
.....--/^£ some on fire. £^/--.....
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.....--/^£ the ground was sticky, red. £^/--.....
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...--/^£ and then i realized that i knew this #&£^/--...
..--/^£# darkness. i knew the way the sky ##&£^/--..
.--/^£## touched the ground. this was her doing! ###&£^/--.
..--/^£# she was here! ##&£^/--..
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