Get ready to fly.

to fly.

Nope, you won't need feathers, or even a seat on an airplane.

Just lend us your ears and the next hour. feathers or even even a seat on an airplane.

Just lend us your ears and the next hour, as Miranda, July, and Margaret Atwood bring us fiction about

flight in a special collaboration with WNYC's radio lab. I'm Meg Walitzer and this selected

shorts is about to take off. Buckle up and hold on tight. You're listening to

selected shorts where our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.

Birds make it look easy. One second they're perched immobile on a branch. The

next they're aloft soaring over grass and trees seemingly unconstrained by gravity. Maybe humans would feel differently

if we had wings and just flew to the 7-Eleven to get potato chips. Maybe we wouldn't dream

about flight or listed as one of the best possible super-ups. Maybe we

would wouldn't dream about flight or listed as one of the best possible superpowers.

As it is, we earthbound creatures are fascinated by flight,

and not only with what it would feel like to fly and feel the wind lifting our wings, but also

getting off the ground. How does that work? What happens if we exhaust ourselves and start to dive?

And what about stopping? The whole process seems mysterious.

Thankfully, there are people who are just as curious about it as we are.

We recently partnered with one of our favorite public radio shows,

The Science Loving and Sonically Adventurous WNYC's radio lab,

to help curate a night of stories.

It was our second collaboration with the show and our first with its new

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