Climbing Up

A Short Pride Story

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“Let’s go for a walk, Marie,” Brian said tugging his hair behind his ear. He did that every time he had to either confess something or apologize, or both, his sister mused.

“Ok,” Marie said with a nod.

The two siblings walked through a path that led to the mountains on the east side of town. They had walked that path for as long as they remembered being alive.