All This Damn Gravity

All This Damn Gravity by shukyou (主教), with art by 2013 first appeared in issue Issue 96 in 2022.

Creator's Notes

You know how sometimes you’re, like, dead certain that you know how a song goes? Not just vaguely sure, but with ironclad confidence? As in, you’ve known the lyrics for literal decades confidently enough that, if someone handed you the mic on karaoke night, you wouldn’t even need the monitors? And then you go — again, literal decades later — and look up the song lyrics juuuuust to double-check because you want to use one of those lyrics (the ones you know really well) as a title for a story, only to find that the internet seems convinced that you’ve been mishearing your favorite line (and only that line!) from this song for decades? Except you can’t go listen to confirm your mishear, because the singer (who still has a vibrant career as a recording artist) seems to have scrubbed her early work from the internet? But you finally find a live version and, dammit, you were right the whole time and it’s the internet that was wrong?

Anyway, “Gravity”, Jennifer Nettles.

This started from a stray idea I had for a wordless comic … what, maybe fifteen years ago? But I can’t draw, so it’s probably better this way.

External Links

This story is also available on Archive of Our Own (AO3).