Gemotions

He’d taken the test out of curiosity, a harmless exploration of his roots. But the results turned into a mirror, reflecting his own solitary existence. The discovery was like being dropped into a sea, and the waves were an emotion that he could not name.

“Your biological mother is deceased.” The stark sentence, the accompanying dates, hit him like a physical blow. A photograph was attached, a woman with his eyes. He realized the face in the picture had been lost to him forever.

He spent the next few days in a daze, the world appearing to be on mute. He cancelled his plans and stared out the window. The silence in his apartment was deafening, the quiet of a tomb.