You, with a View

by Jessica Joyce

“Where’s that competitive spirit?” “Slid off the side of this trail after the twelfth switchback.” I laugh. There are twenty-one.

“We’re all constantly transforming, sometimes in little ways and sometimes in big ones.

“What lesson?” “When it’s right to fight for love, and when it’s right to let it go.

“Permission to psychoanalyze?” “Granted.”