Gemotions

The phone vibrated. A text. A friend. "Dude, have you seen this?!" Ethan clicked the link. His “Broken Halo” print. Permanently inked. He felt a surge of unbidden rage.

His breath caught in his throat. It was not even a good tattoo. The shading was wrong, the lines wobbly, the entire piece looked…crude. He felt a sting behind his eyes.

He picked up the phone and hurled it at the wall. The screen cracked, spiderwebbing across its surface. He took a shaky breath, then another, the air now thick with the scent of shattered glass and his own frustration.