We were both up early when the big day came. We’ll have a pink wedding. My dress will cascade down my body and illuminate the irreplaceable smile on my face. Your tux will be as white as an angel’s wings, pink pocket protector placed precisely in position. The scent of my neon...read more

"We were both up early when the big day came. It was Christmas morning, 1980,” he huskily said through pursed lips. Smoke filled the enclosed dark room that was lit by only a solitary halogen flashbulb without shelter from its glare. He didn’t want to be...read more

"We were both up early when the big day came." She said this while looking down at her hands folded in her lap, and then shook her head. "I don't think I even slept that night - not really. I'm pretty sure Ben didn't either."

One hand rose to wipe away a tear from her cheek, and then...read more

We were both up early when the big day came. Sarah, because of her nerves. Me, because I never slept. In retrospect, that was the source of this whole problem.  Neither of us had much of a stomach for breakfast. In the cramped little three roomer we were renting it was just as well. There...read more

We were both up early when the big day came. It was the day the faith healer was coming to a nearby town. My wife believed it would be a day of miracles.  I was skeptical, but didn’t want to rain on her parade. I watched Irene, as she felt for her clothes and dressed modestly in a...read more

We were both up early when the big day came. We had also barely slept that night yet felt like we had a good night's rest. Images of my poor father burned in my mind, appeared in my dreams and in my nightmares, n the last few months, no man had to die like he did. Today is a day of vengeance,...read more

We were both up early when the big day came. A habit born first of fear, then necessity. You have to be careful. Get there early. Check things out. Without following the plan, things can easily fall apart.

She was up first and had already finished her face and was halfway through her...read more

     We were both up early when the big day came. Not by choice, though. I had a rough day at the office on Friday and was

planning on having a nice, long and lazy Saturday morning sipping my coffee, not the usual guzzle, digesting every page of

the newspaper,...read more

We were both up early when the big day came.  We always like to leave at dawn when we go to the lake. Every summer we take several mini-vacations like this, usually going on Monday to avoid the crowds.  This particular day was the start of a strange week.

I began making...read more

We were both up early when the big day came.

            I hit the snooze button on my alarm clock and groaned at its rude interruption to my sleep. The room was cold, and I had to burrow under the quilt again to regain a feeling of...read more

            We were both up early when the big day came. I thought of her, and she thought of me. I smiled. She did too. The love between the two of us would never change, no matter what came in-between us. Whether it was a natural disaster,...read more

We were both up early when the big day came. I had been up periodically the night before, too anxious and excited to sleep, my mind racing with images and sound. I’d lain in bed listening to myself respire, while staring at the shadows of changing light on the...read more

We were both up early when the big day came. My brother and I awoke with a start at the same time; the next twelve hours would change the course of our lives, though at the time we were not aware that that particular day would be any different from the others in the parade of endless days that...read more

We were both up early when the big day came.

I could hear the familiar whoosh of water in the bathroom pipes as I tromped down the stairs, nearly breaking my ankle as I tripped on the last step. I really need to find time to hem my pj pants, I thought to myself. I'd bought them...read more