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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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#@%=†=-... 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. .........-
.......... ..........
-......... 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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