Paint It, Red

For one of my University submissions we were had to apply a set piece of 3,000 a genre from a list of them.  I chose from this list defamiliarization.  Please let me know if I have achieved a certain sense of it within the piece.  All comments will be returned! 

J. A. Stapleton.

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Paint It, Red (Part I of II)

1 An hour later I was back in my cell, sweating again, plotting my own death. I missed my wife Katharine terribly. But, above all things circulating...
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Paint It, Red (Part II of II)

4 The tires of the black ’62 Lincoln Continental dug in and spat out the gravel with frustration. It drew alongside the flight of steps leading into...
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Paint It, Red (Part II of II) REVISED.

4 ♯ It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black. ♯ -- -- sat upright in his seat and filled the rear-door compartment of his ’62 Lincoln...