Keeping tears inside floods your brain. They’ll stop when they’re ready.
I don’t see that happening any time soon. I can’t remember being so doggone weepy. And I’m not a crier. I just don’t cry, period. So the rare times when I do I get very worried about myself, and this “thing” is very upsetting for me on several levels.
Another free shorty short story on my blog
“Frozen Ship” (not really sci-fi though)
http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/05/short-story-frozen-ship.html