I found it freeing: to accept—instead of fear—gravity, to savor that brief float before the fall.
Nichole LeFebvre is a writer and artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. An alumna of Hedgebrook and the University of Virginia’s MFA program, she has published nonfiction in Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
If my grandfather could remain optimistic into his eighties, then how could I let myself become jaded in my twenties?
“I’m much happier in other, imaginary worlds.”
Though she lives, some part of Korra—the flame throwing hothead, insistent on taking up space—does not survive.