The Bride Speaks

by Adam Jeffries Schwartz

Here are your next 10 Yucatan man:

Bottle
Further
Storage
Tradition
aftershock
aquarium
backward
holy
Daffodil
sculpture

I want to get married. After all, everyone gets married--

it's a family tradition:
Holy matrimony. Holy, yup.

I was all the way up at the altar and then time started to go backwards. My parents--his--looked like fish in an aquarium.

I couldn't go a step further, but I couldn't go back.

Luckily there was an earthquake. At first I thought it was just me. But then, when an aftershock destroyed the ice swan (naturally a swan--fidelity and all) I grabbed a bottle of Stoli and hid in the storage closet.

There were rows and rows of plastic daffodils (regeneration, spring, hope.) Figures.

The Author

Adam Jeffries Schwartz is a writer and a traveler. He has stories in: Descant and Grimm magazines (both in Canada), Petit Journal (Mexico) and in the anthology, Walking Higher (USA). Online he pops up at many sites, including: Ghoti (Fish) Magazine, Melange, LitBits?, Magazine Shiver, Mosaic Minds, Kaleidowhirl & Anacoenesis Literary Journal.