‘Gravity, Reduced’ by Kara Oakleaf

Kara Oakleaf’s story manages the literal and the metaphorical at once—a brief bright narrative of the practicalities of living in the gentle loosening of gravity, as well as a sly commentary on the anxieties of bridging transitions. How, in the face of transition, we ache for the return to what we know, worried the ever-widening distance of known and unknown may be too great to survive. How, if we make it through the transition, we will yield the world to those born with no memory of a different way.

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