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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. @@=*»-....
.....-»*=@ @=*»-.....
......-»*= =*»-......
.......-»* »»»»»--. .--»»»»» *»-.......
........-» »-........
.......-»* *»-.......
......-»*= 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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