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....-**%#@ @#%**-....
..-**%@# **-----.... ....-----** #@#&%**-..
.....-***& * * &***-.....
..-**%@@ * mirage class goth gf * @@#&%**-..
..-**%@# * * #@#&%**-..
..-**%@@ **-----.... ....-----** @@#&%**-..
..-**%@# #@#&%**-..
.....****& &****.....
..-**%&@## 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... &**--.....
......**%# #%**......
..-**%&&&& &&&&%**-..
..-**%#@ -----... ...----- @##&%**-..
..-**%## ###&%**-..
.....***%& &%***.....
..-**%@# 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! #@#&%**-..
.....--*%# #%*--.....
....--** #&**--....
.......-*& &*-.......
..-**%@# #@#&%**-..
..-**%&@## ##@&%**-..