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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. ###@§**-..
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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. @§§**-....
..-**$§@## ##@§$**-..
..-**$§@## AND THEN THE SUN CAME OUT, AND SHE WENT ##@§$**-..
..-**$§@## AWAY. EVERYTHING CHANGED... I YEARNED, ##@§$**-..
..-**$$$§@ AND THE WORLD BECAME DULL AROUND ME. @§$$$**-..
..-**$§@@# #@@§$**-..
..-**$§@## I STOPPED DOING CRIME, EXCEPT WHEN ##@§$**-..
.......-*§ NECESSARRY. THINGS SOMEHOW SEEMED LIKE §*-.......
.....****§ THEY WERE ALLRIGHT, MOULDED IN PLACE, §****.....
..-******§ AND I LOATHED IT ------ I MISSED HER §******-..
.....**§§§ SO MUCH. §§§**.....
..-**$§@## ##@§$**-..
..-**$§@## ##@§$**-..
..-**$§@## -----... ...----- ##@§$**-..
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..-**$§@@@ I SEARCHED FOR HER, BUT NOBODY HAD ANY @@@§$**-..
..-**$§@@# MEMORIES OF HER. NOT SO MUCH OF ME #@@§$**-..
..-**$§@## EITHER, FROM THE TIME WE WERE TOGETHER. ##@§$**-..
..-**$§§§@ MY MOTHER SAID I KEPT TO MYSELF IN THE @§§§$**-..
..-**$§§§§ BARN, OR IN THE CAR. §§§§$**-..
..-**$§@## ##@§$**-..
..-**$§### SOMETIMES I COULD STILL SEE HER ###§$**-..
....***$§# FLASHING BY ON THE TV IN THE BARN. #§$***....
....-***§@ 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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..-**$§@## ##@§$**-..
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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 §***---...
..-**$§§@# OVER THE CAR, CRASHED IT INTO A ROCK #@§§$**-..
..-**$§@## WALL AND FLEW OUT THE WINDSHIELD. ##@§$**-..
..-**$§### ###§$**-..
..-**$§@## AND THEN I GOT UP, AND LOOKED AROUND. ##@§$**-..
..-**$§@## IT WAS DARK, WHERE IT PREVIOUSLY HAD ##@§$**-..
..-**$@### BEEN A BRIGHT DAY. AROUND ME WHERE ###@$**-..
..-**$§§§§ DOZENS OF CRASHED CARS, ALL MY CAR, §§§§$**-..
..-**$§@## SOME ON FIRE. ##@§$**-..
..-**$§@@@ @@@§$**-..
..-**§@### 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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