This Thing Between Us

by Gus Moreno

You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us.

Maybe he was being tricked, but at least he knew he had to exist to be tricked.”

Life is life.

I’m afraid that when we die, we end up wherever we always thought we’d end up. If we want to go to heaven, we go to heaven. If we believe in reincarnation, we come back as a baby or an animal or a tree. If we think we’re going to hell, we’ll burn forever, and we’ll

never realize that we were the ones to put ourselves there. That in the afterlife we all tapped into a mechanism, some larger system bent on fulfilling our personal ideas of death.