Gemotions

The old house felt cold despite the summer heat. Thomas shivered, holding his grandfather’s draft resignation. The letter was from the steel mill, a place where generations of his family had worked. His grandfather had always appeared stoic, never revealing his true feelings about his life.

He carefully read the words. It was an articulate expression of a deep sense of injustice. Thomas felt a release, the same pain his grandfather must have felt, lessened.

He took a deep breath, pushing away the feeling of an ending, and embracing the beginning. He felt a new strength, a clarity he hadn't known existed. He would be the first in his family to break away from that history.