Gemotions

He had been tidying his late wife's desk when he discovered it. A folded letter, written in her elegant hand, addressed to her sister, whom she had barely spoken to for decades. Mark felt a strange, cold hollowness bloom in his stomach.

He sat motionless, staring at the envelope. He felt a profound disorientation, a sense that the ground beneath him had shifted. He didn’t know how to move, what to do.

He reached for it. He read the words and then re-read the words. He found himself incapable of speech, a strange buzzing filling his ears. The revelation in the letter, a secret about their shared past, was something he would never have imagined.