The ceryneian hind

As one of his labors, Heracles was tasked with capturing a deer without harming it, but in my collection of essays, aptly named The Ceryneian Hind, I killed the sacred deer and must atone for this. This collection is a series of coming of age essays that explore anxiety, dysphoria, and heartbreak, with each essay twined with a Greek myth: Prometheus and Epimetheus, Atlas and Heracles, Ariadne and her string, and the Minotaur and Theseus. Through these myths, I am better able to explore my circumstances, and through writing these essays, I am able to understand my mistakes and seek a path of redemption. In composing five essays and two multimodal pieces (one comic and the other an essay on a string,) I bridge the ancient and modern, the despairs and hopes of a young writer, and the textual and visual to broaden my sense of reality and seek answers to long-held questions. The Ceryneian Hind is an omen and a blessing; in loss, we will find the stories to uplift our hearts.