The Evolution of Flight

Suddenly everyone can fly. You walk outside and see them up there, below the clouds, above the buildings. Scarves and flight goggles come back into fashion; the dress industry dries up. People grow their hair long and straight.

There are many collisions. Many deaths. Falling from a great height does things to a person that shock even the most learned of coroners. Of course people have been falling ever since the first stone towers were made majestic by millions of tides, but never in such numbers, and never those so unfit for the activity. Before it took a certain type to climb high enough to fall so far. Now pregnant mothers are doing calisthenics above mountain ranges. Below the waters are muddied with blood.

Another person falls. Another doctor trails the stretcher behind him like a cape.

One day perhaps everyone will fall. And those still on the ground will spread themselves thin and buy shares in umbrellas.