Gemotions

The handwritten list, found tucked inside a worn journal, began with a startling simplicity: "Fall in love." Eleanor’s breath hitched. She and David had been together for almost a decade, and that was on his list? The rest of the entries felt like further stabs: “Learn to paint.” “Go to Burning Man.”

She felt a wave of dizziness, and she grabbed the edge of the table to steady herself. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. The implications of this document, and the person that lay behind it, were beginning to suffocate her.