Hannah Lee
Q: What is your favorite piece that you have submitted to the Art and Lit Mag?
A: It's probably a piece I wrote last year called Shrödinger's Dilemma. I actually wrote [Shrödinger's Dilemma] the spring of my sophomore year during some— let's just say— interesting life phases of mine, and I ended up really liking it. It's been through several revisions since I first wrote it, but it's been one of the few pieces I continue to like as it gets older.
Q: When and how did you start exploring photography and writing, respectively?
A: My mom has a nice camera and loves taking pictures, too, and when I was little, I would always refuse to be in the photos and insist on being the one taking them. My fourth grade teacher helped me get this dumb little short story I wrote published in a collection of kid's writing, and I guess it's given me a taste of the limelight ever since.
Shrödinger's Dilemma
I can smell it again- the heavy breeze that carries the cold air out of my room and into the walls of the houses next door. The sun sets behind my house, over the edge of my reality, and disappears into the night. I watch the east, where a red-turned-purple sky remains, being swallowed up by the hazy night sky. I sit as the last of the light fades and the curtains shudder against my back. This roof is stable but not safe. I climb back inside. But for a moment- just a fraction of time- I live in a threshold, a space where the smell of summer mixes with the stench of my sleepless nights. But this threshold, it appears elsewhere in life too. It appears in the red-turned-purple sky. It appears in the sea foam separating land and watery oblivion. It appears in the moment you say goodbye to a friend and you turn around, not truly knowing whether you'll ever see them again. In this threshold you find a box where reality is not yet collapsed and we are not yet living nor dead. It’s in this threshold that I remain. Not purple, nor red- just the space in between.
(Originally published in the Spring 2018 issue "Solar.")
"Taylor"
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(Originally published in the Spring 2018 issue "Solar.")