Splitted-pages LaTeX format

Question

Do you remember the book titled "Diary of a bad year" written by John Maxwell Coetzee (a Nobel laureated writer)?
If you do not. This book has a special format where each page is horizontally-splitted wherein the upper segment describes some essays while in the lower segment describes a story (as you can see in Figure below).
How can I write a document (in LaTeX) in this unusual format? I want to avoid (as possible) use minipage or similar LaTeX environments because they may do not support a way to input entire content and distributing automatically along with the book.

CatThatKilledCuriosity · Answer

Footnotes sound like a good fit for the behaviour that you're looking for.
documentclass{article}

% place holder text
usepackage{lipsum}

% increase footnote font size
renewcommand{footnotesize}{normalsize}

% suppress footnote marker with custom command blfootnote
makeatletter
defblfootnote{xdef@thefnmark{}@footnotetext}
makeatother

% full width footnote separator
renewcommandfootnoterule{hrule}
renewcommand{footnoterule}{raggedlefthrulevspace*{2em}}

begin{document}

section{Heading}
lipsum[1-2]
blfootnote{lipsum[2]}

end{document}

Splitted-pages LaTeX format

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