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I found a file called My Little Darlings. No, it's not a story. It's a page and a half of text which I had cut from a novel I had begun writing many years ago. It didn't fit that particular storyline at the time, but I could't bring myself to trash it permanently.

Anyway, I thought why not try out this process and see what I end up with?

Instead of printing it off and using a black marker, I played around with the blackout process using rectangle shapes. Once I was satisfied, I took a screenshot of the results.

No one else can ever know about the expensive smelling man who wore trashy earrings that sparkled like real diamonds.

That is NOT something I would have written otherwise.