The last metres

Micro-stories from the second edition of the competition: High Altitude Storieswe let you enjoy with "Los últimos metros", by Íñigo Pinillos Parra, second winner of the micro-story contest, Tall tales II.

The last metres

-by Íñigo Pinillos Parra-.

Keeping an eye on the path so as not to slip, Isabel notices the girl in red leggings.
that reaches the pass. Clinging to her father's hand, she prances along,
agile as a fallow deer. In times before she was weighed down with those sticks,
she also made fun of the obstacles in the way, and she did so also by the hand
of his own, now absent. The memory of it stirs her nostalgia: the girl has barely begun her
She is walking the last few metres of the mountain... She is trying to
to keep her in sight, but, as if her walking sticks had
rooted in the earth and pulled by it, he feels the heaviness in his legs. His
Her husband then urges her with a tug. "Why are you standing up, woman?
feet and memory stumble. He wipes his eyes with his glove. "I've been
snow in the eye, that's all".