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<strong>Jack</strong> <strong>kilborn</strong> <strong>SErial</strong> <strong>blakE</strong> <strong>crouch</strong><br />

heartwarming depth of their new screams, skipped back to<br />

the car and hopped in and stomped the gas, their cries rising<br />

into something like the baying of hounds, lucy howling<br />

back. She pushed the Subaru past fifty, to sixty, to seventy<br />

five, and in the illumination of the spotlight, the boys<br />

bounced along the pavement, on their backs, their sides,<br />

their stomachs, and with every passing second looking<br />

more and more lovely, and still making those delicious<br />

screams she could almost taste, lucy driving with no<br />

headlights, doing eighty under the moon, and the cold<br />

winter wind rushing through the windows like the breath<br />

of God.<br />

She made it five miles, (no one had ever lasted five miles<br />

and she credited those well-made snowboarding helmets),<br />

before the skeletons finally went quiet.<br />

lucy ditched what was left of the boys and drove all night<br />

like she’d done six blasts of coke, arriving in Salt lake as<br />

the sun edged up over the mountains. She checked into<br />

a red roof inn and ran a hot bath and cleaned the new<br />

blood and the old blood out of the ropes and let the cara-biners<br />

and the chains and the handcuffs soak in the soapy water.<br />

in the evening she awoke, that dark weight perched on her<br />

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