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..,-/^%@## ^ mirage class goth gf ^ ##@%^/-,..
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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. ##@%^/-,..
.,-/^%@### ###@%^/-,.
..,-/^%@## 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. %^/-,.....
....,-/^%@ @%^/-,....
...,-/^%@# 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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......,-/^ -----,,. .,,----- ^/-,......
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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. #@%^/-,...
..,-/^%@## ##@%^/-,..
.,-/^%@### 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. #@%^/-,...
....,-/^%@ @%^/-,....
.....,-/^% 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. %^/-,.....
....,-/^%@ @%^/-,....
...,-/^%@# 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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