Hannah K.

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“Begin Again” by Hannah K.

Submitted to Contest #284

“You’re giving black cat energy.” My face remains slack as I internally balk at the slight. After a pause, I smile nonchalantly as if I were not a mallard – moving gracefully in the gaze of my appraisers while chaotically moving my feet underneath the cover of the lake. I propel myself towards what I pray is forward. I sip my club soda with lime, discreetly concealing my sobriety to the hawkish gaze of other party-goers. I take a breath, send a bicoastal smile across my face and look Savannah directly in her dancing carob eyes. Carbonat...

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My work reflects a grandiose expression of my insecurities, anxieties and wildest fantasies. "Begin Again" was initially a journal entry detailing to my therapist why micro-aggressions with low face validity evoke such strong emotional responses. I was hoping to encapsulate a sliver of the paradox of femininity, while highlighting the vast differences between observable behavior and the inner world of my characters. They are all me.