HANDS THAT LOOK LIKE YOURS

SHORT STORY
Handmade and printed on a thick linen paper that offers style and durability. That's right. Both.

SYNOPSIS:
Perosnally, I think you should just read the story. It's all in there.

But if you really wanna know, this story is about...

Jackson rhoades, a middle-aged man living in a motel. One day, his twenty-three-year-old self walks in this room, and, though they cannot explain how this is possible, they decide to live together.

Older takes on a fatherly role for younger, both of which never had one. Later, younger falls in love with a local woman, but fucks it up when he begins using hard drugs. This is when you find out that older is an ex-drug addict and was recently released from prison.

Younger doesn't know this is/was/still may be his future. Older tries to protect younger from this potentiality but younger won't listen no matter how much older tries. He has to learn the hard way. And boy does it get sad and weird, also, very horny for some reason.

Anyway, I wouldn't read much more of this. I mean don't you want to be surprised?

No??? Okaaayyyyy...

So, there's this whole other thing going on where every time older lays down on the bed and closes his eyes, he goes inside the mind of younger. He can't move him, only observe. But he feels every sensation, physical, psychological, and emotional.
So when younger starts using drugs, older relapses. Honestly, you shouldn't have read this far. Maybe it's my fault, but really why can't you just leave your life where it is sometimes? Do you really think an empty to do list or turning the volume one notch up or the heat down one notch, etc etc etc could give you happiness? I mean, could a to do list ever even really be empty? I mean, could happiness really be sustained for more than a moment anyway? Do you honestly believe you would even know what happiness was if you had it? Or would you turn another knob up or down one notch to see if you could be even happier? I mean for christ's sake - look, i'm sorry i yelled. I haven't been sleeping well and i think i might have