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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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