The people of earth clung tight to fixed objects. They grabbed hold of trees, playground structures, or whatever was nearest them when the gravity went away. Mothers held their children tight and husbands, their wives. Everyone was floating like flags on poles trying to figure out how to get their feet back on the ground.

Mae, on the other hand, was practicing the one thing she had dreamed about more than anything else.

Flying. And she was a natural. Mae discovered that practicing a thing in her head actually prepares you for real life.

Mae zipped past her fellow humans on her way to flying with the birds and getting a close look at the tippy-top of some of her favorite buildings. Mae even took a nap on a a cloud.

Waking abruptly from her nap, Mae realized that gravity was back. People on the ground looked up at Mae falling toward earth.

That was their perception. Mae could fly now and she did so, eyes wide with wonder.

Huzzah!