My name is Analise Strong, and I’ve stumbled onto something I can just barely begin to understand. You can collect my story the Metal Man on crypto-z.com
[Analise] — Big Boy! There’s my little resident mouse catcher. Did you have a good day \ntoday, hmm? Catch any rats?
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Recording date: April 10, 2035\nRecording time: 1:34 A.M. EST\n\n[Analise] — I can’t stop thinking about it. \n\n[Analise] — I know what I saw. \n\n[Analise] — ‘N then just gettin’ accused of seein’ a ghost? Really? I mean…I guess there ain’t \nmuch more of a better explanation. An alien? A hallucination? I dunn—\n\npertinent information: I’m startled by a large white cat jumping into the bed next to me.
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[Analise] — I dunno. That’s just a story some idiot guys told dad. I don’t know if you should \nbelieve that. \n\n[Mother] — You think I’m naive, but you saw somethin’ tonight, Ana. Don’t discount that. \n\n[Analise] — Yeah…sure. \n\n[Analise] — I think I’m gonna go to bed.
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[Mother] No! This is a real story people told him when he started—\n\n[Analise] —this sounds a lot like what happened. I don’t want you to—\n\n[Mother] — What? Want me to what?\n\n[silence]\n\n[Analise] — You think I saw a ghost?\n\n[Mother] — Maybe? Or not. They said he came back wearin’ metal—
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[Mother] — Back when me n’ yer father had just gotten married, he started his lineman work. \nHe heard rumors from th’boys—you know, them tryin’ to scare him and all—and they told him about this thing. Oh, what was it?\n\n[Mother] — Um…so I think it went—there was this man. He was experienced, he’d been a \nlineman for something like ten years. But, one day, he was workin’ a pole for fifteen hours by himself. When he was comin’ down, he brushed a live wire—somethin’ was exposed or something else, I’m not too sure—but he got stuck up there. They only found him because his flesh was burnt so bad the neighbors complained about the smell. \n\n[Mother] — Oh, it was a gruesome story. But y’know, there were stories that the body went \nmissin’ after that. Like it just…got up, climbed down, and walked into the \nwoods…\n\n[...]\n\n[Analise] — Mom…\n\n[Mother] — What?\n\n[Analise] — Are you talkin’ about dad? Because this—
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[Analise] — Well…Me n’ Mason were up on our poles n’ it was real late—like ten o’clock. \nAnd…I saw this guy? But he didn’t really look like a guy—anyway. He…touched a live wire. Like he grabbed it. N’ then he stared at us before he ran off in the woods. He moved like he had broken hips er’ something. I—I don’t know. \n\n[Analise] — He looked metal—like it wasn’t human. I know that’s crazy, but what I saw? It \nwasn’t no man.\n\n[Mother] Ana—\n\n[Analise] — Aw, Mom! Come on. I knew this was gonna happen. You’re gonna tell me I’m \nseein’ stuff, right? I’m crazy? That that counselor’s a—a loon and—\n\n[Mother] — I know what you’re talkin’ about. \n\n[...]
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[Mother] — What is it?\n\n[Analise] — Huh?\n\n[Mother] — Yer thinkin’ about somethin’. \n\n[Analise] — I uh—oh boy. Um…if I tell you somethin’, you won’t think I’m crazy? \n\n[Mother] — ‘Course not.
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[Mother] — So, what about everything? Other than that?\n\n[Analise] — Well…it wasn’t as bad as it looked on th’news. They filmed th’worst parts of it. \nWe got a few of the lines back up, maybe twenty percent? Gonna have to go back a few more times to get everyone power. \n\n[Mother] — Maybe they won’t call you out that way again ‘cause yer so far away?\n\n[Analise] — I doubt it, they need me.
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Recording date: April 10, 2035\nRecording time: 12:57 A.M.\n\n[Mother] —nd a cow was stuck in the lines? Oh, goodness…\n\n[Analise] — Yeah, it was…bad. I don’t wanna think about how they got it down. \n\n[Mother] — I’m sorry, hun. I just—you know. You don’t gotta do this kinda work if you don’t \nreally wanna—\n\n[Analise] — Mom. \n\n[Mother] — I know, I know. Yer as stubborn as yer father. \n\n[Analise] — Uh, don’t—it’s fine. It’s fine.
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pertinent information: I lunge towards Dylan. Mason holds me back. His shit eating grin almost sends me over the edge.\n\n[Dylan] — Ey, ey! Chill, lady. Chill. God. \n\n[Mason] — Hey, hey, hey, it’s fine. Y’all just cut it out, alrite? It’s damn near midnight n’ ain’t \nnone of us need to get our asses fired after a day like t’day. Y’all hear me? \n\n[Analise] — Whatever.
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