I am waiting… I am waiting.I have always been waiting.My eyes are closed, as they have always been.My hands float in front of my face, and even if I can't see them, I know exactly what shape they ... [+]
Hannah Hayden is a student at Brigham Young University. She is studying Speech Language Pathology and Mandarin, Chinese. She loves hiking, yoga, and microwave meals. "Permission to Be Human" was a finalist of Short Édition's Long Story Short Award, 2020.
When I woke up gravity was gone.I floated to the kitchen, blender uncappedmy smoothie entered the airand I sucked it from the ceiling with a straw.I floated to work, waving to my grandma. She crawls after her drifting dentures.When I woke up sadness had left.The sky was very blue and static, like sea glass electrified and dyed.A sun burnt my freckles and I reach for a runaway sunscreen stick.A baby is born and I float by.My grandma is gone and I move on, toward work, past vacant baseball fields.What if when I wake there is gravity, there will be baseball, olympics, rock climbing, running, tram