How to Plan a Wedding - Short Story

Literary Review, Summer, 2000 by Robin Braudwell

I was still staring at the slow movement of the creek when I heard Bonnie's voice.

"There you are, Mary Alice," she said and she was standing beside me. "We can't start the rehearsal without my maid of honor, my best girl."

I looked up and saw my sister, her blond hair blowing sideways in the wind. She held out her hand, its sparkling ring on the third finger, and I took it.

"Bonnie," I said.

Robin Braudwell just completed a one-year teaching fellowship at the University, of Arizona in Tucson