Steffy risked a glance at her fellow neighbors and townspeople. She often looked for kindred spirits in the crowd. None were ever found. Just once, she wished to see someone trying to hide a smile, a snicker, or plain sighing at the absurdity. The rowdy outcasts among the community were not welcome in the church. They knew better than to show their faces.
Jaime Allison Parker
alienation, alone, aloneness, fear, loathing, misfit, misfits, outcasts, religious-hypocrisy, social-anxiety