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There she stood with wobbly knees, arms limp as a dying flower, shoulders set to kiss the earth, hiding within her heart this nerve-racking, conspicuously slanderous self-awareness of being unloved.
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 8:57 AM UTC
Earthquake
There she stood with wobbly knees, arms limp as a dying flower, shoulders set to kiss the earth, hiding within her heart this nerve-racking, conspicuously slanderous self-awareness of being unloved.
Inspired by the novel Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson ... September 18, 2015. 1am
leah-anne
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 8:57 AM UTC
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