NORTHEAST OHIO SPOTLIGHT |
EastboundFiction by Alysandra Dutton
A drab of wax trembled on the edge of one of my wedding candles. They were lined up on a podium that rattled with the dull plink of piano keys, ten little flames like ten bridesmaids. I watched the wax instead of my husband’s face as I came down the aisle. A photo my maid of honor Nina took with her new/old polaroid camera and tucked in the guestbook revealed his smile: front two teeth overly white (fake, from an accident as a kid), dimples writing his happiness into his cheeks from eye crease to chin.
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