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who's likely about to close up the market to see if i could sit in on the weekly late night folk jam session. | H | 3.2 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 1580 | Male |
and then he asked me why i hadn't popped into the market that afternoon. | S | 3 | 3 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
and i told him i'd gotten sidetracked by some real strangeness that i should have explained to him sooner. | N | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
and i'd been tethered to the phone. | N | 2.2 | 3.2 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
i said, "no, i didn't leave the house today." | N | 2 | 3.2 | 2.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
i turned the lamp on beside it and i sat. | N | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
that's all there was to it | X | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
i thought about the shacks and temporary structures in those woods. | S | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
a little cabin that was the storefront for a sword maker when the fair was on. | N | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
feeling suddenly that i was meant to have rented this house. | N | 2.2 | 4.8 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
see what happened. my car keys were already in my pocket. | N | 2.8 | 3.6 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
my wallet, i tucked into my jeans and i got up and i walked into the outer hallway, which was still dark. | N | 3 | 3.6 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
i wouldn't feel better now until i was at grover's and i wasn't above heading from there directly to the nearest hotel, 20 miles away. | S | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
two hours by then, a full two hours. | S | 3 | 3.4 | 2.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
i was safely out of the line of sight that began from the front door and stretched straight up the 14 carpeted steps to the top floor. | X | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
then window panes flanking the front door. | N | 1.4 | 3.2 | 1.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
someone was sitting on the welcome mat down there in the foyer. | N | 1.6 | 3.6 | 2.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
with their back against the door just sitting. | X | 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
-listening for any sound. i turned my head- | X | 2.8 | 2.8 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
i locked the door, frail as it was, and i stood there in the dark. | X | 2.8 | 3.6 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
fully charged. i stepped into the shower stall as far away from the doors as i could get. | N | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
-and i called 911. and how hard it was to bring myself to utter a single word- | S | 2.8 | 2.8 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
and each syllable i uttered, blocked out an instant of sound that might have been life and death to me. | S | 2.2 | 3.2 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
then just quiet. the endurance test of my sanity began. | S | 2.6 | 3 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
that was bad. so i drew the shower curtain closed to conceal myself totally. | S | 2 | 3 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
it's quite something, the sounds that came to me in that quiet. | S | 2.4 | 2.8 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
in unnoticeable ways. that's at some point i lost my mental clock. | S | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
but there must have still been a couple of minutes left when there came from down below. | N | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
muffling an angry male voice. | N | 3 | 3 | 3.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
it felt like i'd never be able to close them again. | N | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
i was just barely able to hear that same deep male voice call out. | N | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
it was safe to come down. | N | 2.6 | 3.6 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
convicted drug dealer and someone who had been acquitted of murder in st. paul. | S | 2.8 | 2.2 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
[inaudible 00:05:35] lay dead on my staircase, halfway up. face to the ceiling. | S | 2.8 | 3 | 2.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
and who had pulled up at my house just in time to intervene... | S | 2.2 | 3.2 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
but he didn't. it wasn't that he was voluntarily giving himself up. | S | 4.2 | 3.2 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
i think that like me- | N | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
one of them dead, one his killer. | N | 2.6 | 2.6 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
and what a coward. i still remember how... | X | 2.8 | 3.6 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
power looked up the staircase at me... | X | 3.2 | 3.6 | 2.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
with a mix of disgust and wonder- | X | 3 | 3.8 | 4.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
-at the awful tricks that life plays on us. | N | 2.2 | 3 | 2.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
when i was younger, i got hit with a community service sentence for an active cemetery trespassing. | N | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
and the judge gave me the assignment of spending 40 hours cleaning the graffiti from an old, old train tunnel that doubled down as a bike pathway- | N | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
a weird smelling solvent and a wire brush and rubber gloves and a dust mask. | N | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
to dim the weak orange color, 35- | S | 2.2 | 2.6 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
-years of graffiti had to come off. | N | 3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
no caption done in just a few strokes of very old paint. | S | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
sometimes the wind would get caught up in the tunnel somehow and whistle for a minute and then die. | S | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
had hauled all the way in there. | N | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
there was someone there 50 yards away. | N | 2.4 | 3 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
standing just outside the entrance. | X | 3 | 3.6 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
there was a man and a woman holding hands. | N | 2.4 | 3.8 | 2.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
just turn back to my business. | S | 2.4 | 3.4 | 2.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
they hadn't gone anywhere. | N | 3 | 3.6 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
there they still were. so i very intentionally tried to screen them out and work on the stone in front of me. | N | 3.2 | 3.2 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
look up, but not otherwise. | N | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
and eventually they were just not there anymore. | N | 4 | 4.4 | 4.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
was pretty high. this one was done just like the other two. | N | 2.8 | 3.6 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
except it was partially covered by other graffiti. | S | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
bout aa half hour later, i looked toward the north end of the tunnel and... | N | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
there they were again, that couple. | N | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
i suddenly felt very afraid. | X | 3 | 2.6 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
same spot, same behavior, not walking forward. | X | 3.6 | 3 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
and i hadn't seen them approach the tunnel. | N | 3.2 | 3.8 | 3.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
understand why it was i was so scared to call out to them. | S | 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
i couldn't bring myself to make a sound because- | S | 2.8 | 2.8 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
-making a sound might somehow cause something to happen. | X | 2.8 | 3.2 | 4.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
this time i did see them turn and walk away down the path. | N | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
i felt like reading up on anything i could find about the tunnel. | N | 3.8 | 3 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
internet didn't produce much on the topic. | X | 2.6 | 3.4 | 2.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
and to my amazement, it was about local lynchings. | X | 3 | 3.6 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
involving a man named ralph tanner and his girlfriend. | N | 4 | 4.2 | 3.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
melody march, both 21 years old. | S | 2.8 | 2.8 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
it came out that they'd had a suicide pact. | N | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
she had stepped in front of a train coming through the tunnel where i had spent the last several nights. | N | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
but the last second, he had lost his nerve and only watched as she was struck. | S | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2 | Unknown | Unknown |
while awaiting trial, he would walk down the tracks and then- | N | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
i never found any proof that this part of the story was true. | S | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
just that they were real people with a real pact. | N | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
and tanner had been sentenced to a few years in prison- | N | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
-where he hung himself. i suppose the faces could have been done by anyone. | N | 2.4 | 2.4 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
feel almost silly talking about them | S | 2 | 3 | 2.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
smooth pavement laid down for bicyclists and hikers. | X | 1.2 | 2.8 | 2.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
my footsteps seemed so loud somehow. | N | 2 | 3 | 2.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
the nearest house to that part of the trail was three quarters of a mile away. | S | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
i was scared from the first moment i set foot on the path that night. | X | 3.2 | 3 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
my neck was stiff and sore from fear. | S | 2 | 3 | 2.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
my head was pounding. i couldn't even listen to music. i just scrubbed till my hands ached as they did every night. | S | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.8 | Unknown | Unknown |
just scrubbed and tried not to look around. | S | 2.6 | 2.8 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
sometimes the wind caused a little gathering of leaves to whip together in a spiral of- | N | 2.6 | 4.6 | 4 | Unknown | Unknown |
and it made me tremble for some reason. | X | 1.6 | 2.4 | 2.4 | Unknown | Unknown |
and i saw the face on the stones beside a bunch of oversized and- | N | 2.6 | 3.2 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
messy, random dollar signs somebody had drawn. | S | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
several times, and when i turned | N | 3 | 4.2 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
i saw them again. i saw the couple, but- | S | 2.6 | 4 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
this time, they were standing inside the tunnel, just by a few feet. | S | 2 | 2.8 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
they started to walk toward me this time, hand in hand. | N | 3.2 | 3.8 | 3.2 | Unknown | Unknown |
fear. there was suddenly a taste in my mouth like- | X | 4.2 | 3.2 | 3.6 | Unknown | Unknown |
gasoline. weird, peppery almost. | X | 2.4 | 4 | 3 | Unknown | Unknown |
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