Neil Thompson Rees, Embracing Darkness (Single Shot 2020)

She hides in the shadows hoping. Hoping that one day she won't feel fear, desperate for some respite hoping one day she can return to the light. She doesn't know how so she holds on to despair, grasps it with all her might that it may protect her from the present. There she finds comfort, the dark embrace of depression a familiar shield to the blows of reality.

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