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Flights of Fancy

In stories, children always complain about the rules. They have flights of fancy about staying up at night and having extraordinary powers. Certainly, mankind has dreamt of great feats of body and mind, but society has always fantasized the most about defying the rule of gravity and taking flight.

Once upon a time a man determined to fulfill his own fantasy of flight. Before him people had tried this through mechanical means. They succeeded, but the users were still bound to the device, hardly better than being bound to the ground. This man, whose name was Franklin Gray, decided changing man was the only way he could fly. He experimented with some sort of extremely advanced science or magic(the two are mostly the same). On the date of his first and only experiment, December 17, 2018, everyone within a twenty mile radius began to float. But in a cruel twist of irony, he was the only one unaffected.

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