Shared by Two

by Jon Athan

Like the frequent power outages, there were persistent blackouts of love in their home.

You don’t know for certain, so you don’t know at all. You need the absolute truth.”

For a while, we were worried that you let the ‘woke mob’ get to you. You can’t let people like that censor you. Real artists aren’t afraid to express themselves. You’re a real artist, aren’t you?

He had always found inspiration in the real-life horrors of the world. And something terrible was always happening. Every day was the worst day of someone’s life.

He said, “They don’t understand that life itself is gratuitous. In the grander scheme of things, our lives are meaningless. No one asks to be born, right? Therefore, gratuitousness is ingrained in human nature. And they don’t see the true suffering people experience every day.

“We are one!” the killer growled as he jumped from his seat. “One soul shared by two bodies! One sickness shared by two minds! We must come together! That is our destiny!”

“A piece of you inside of me,” he said. Nestor was thoroughly freaked out. His foreskin—severed and cooked—was in another man’s stomach.

“I’m sorry for tricking you, but I... Well, I ejaculated into your yogurt.”

Your pain started during your childhood and it stayed in your heart. You’ve tried to keep it locked away, but... you know it doesn’t work that way. You can’t bury anguish. You were scared to find love because you didn’t want to lose love. You didn’t want friends because you didn’t want to lose friends. You’ve always wanted to be alone because you felt safer by yourself.”