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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. #¶&=/«:...
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.....:«/=& 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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