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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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.....,~:*% %*:~,.....
......,~:* 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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