Gemotions

The email notification chimed, and with it, a crushing weight. His childhood home, the safe haven of countless summers and winter holidays, was up for sale. He felt an intense wave of… sadness. He didn't want to admit to it, not even to himself.

He scrolled through the pictures. The yard, once a playground, was now manicured. The rooms, once filled with boisterous laughter, were now eerily vacant. The changes felt… wrong.

He pushed away from his desk. He felt a hollowness in his chest, a deep and echoing absence. He wandered aimlessly through his apartment, feeling lost and adrift in the emptiness.