All her pictures were gone - he had even cut her face out of the wedding photos. the smell of her perfume. All of her clothes. That silly tune she always used to hum - all of it was gone. His life was no longer whole; and the vacancy of his wife leaving created a vacuum begging to be filled.
But it wasn't all bad. The stupid photos of his in-laws were replaced by pictures his dad had given him when he was young. He started using that old cologne she always hated, and hardly missed her perfume. And that silly children's song she always sang? He replaced that with the unintelligible, inhuman screaming of his now blind 5 year old as she bled onto the carpet.
"Sorry honey," he said. "You always had your mother's eyes."
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