by
Annibal
Short Story: Adventure, General Fiction
Brandon's brother, Daniel, is dead. And now he's on the road with Daniel's best friends, saying goodbye.
This was written for a Creative Writing course. The weirdest thing about writing it was that I had done it right before my own brother ended up in a hospital, for 80 days, after an accident.
Brandon's older brother, Daniel, dies from a freak brain aneurysm. Then Daniel's best friends, Aeron and Rust, take Brandon on a road trip out to lake Powell, as a way of saying goodbye.
As with a lot of my writing, this is inspired by my own older brother, who is currently an active BASE jumper, adventurer, Paragliding pilot, etc. etc. He and his friends, in High school, would frequently disappear for days at a time, going all over the Western US, having adventures.