The Plus-Sized Bride No One Wanted: Too Fat to Love
I watched how the petals curved outward and how the thin stems bent slightly in the soft air.
My wrist relaxed. The pencil moved back and forth across the paper with a soft, rhythmic scratching sound.
First came the thick trunk of the old oak tree. I shaded the rough bark with dark, fast strokes, pressing harder on the wooden pencil to make deep shadows. Next, I drew the soft grass spreading across the bottom of the page. My hand moved faster now, memory taking over. When I was a little girl, before my parents told me to stop, I used to sit in our backyard for hours with a cheap pad of paper. I remembered how to layer light grey lines over dark ones to make leaves look thick and full.