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When I'm bored, I sometimes read the Archives. Sometimes I will find things that are fit to be reposted just because they are so good. Usually, I cannot remember why or how any of these were written by me. This one comes from the sub-site formerly known as Superficial Jesus Pose, posted sometime between 7/23 and 7/29 in the year 2000. Titled, A Story For You:

I gazed out of the window into a passing car. He laughed, a loud guffaw, his neck quivering, demonstrating the weight that spread across his entire body. Sweat glistened on his dark skin, sun filtering through the glass. She sat next to him, a hunched down, pale vision. She peered out of the thick sheet of transparency into the clouds ahead, the sorrow translating cleanly through from between the darkened rings around her eyes, like the sky might understand her troubles. Greasy blond hair matted to her head. Shimmering strings stuck to the side of her face, connecting to the corners of her eyelids like a broken spider web. She managed to be beautiful, despite her sadness, despite the girth and sickness of the laughing man next to her. The light turning green, driving away. The moment passed like a fading photograph, yellowing at the edges first, then losing all color. It was gone before I could recognize it for what it was.