The Front-Row Seat

On his wedding morning Daniel ties a white ribbon around a small wooden box and sets it on the front-row chair. Milo has been gone eleven months.

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On the morning of the wedding, Daniel carried a small wooden box into the empty ceremony room and placed it on the first chair.

The box was no bigger than a paperback book. Its corners had faded from being handled, and a tiny brass plate on the lid carried one name:

Milo.

Daniel adjusted the white ribbon tied around it, stepped back, and frowned.

“Too much?” he asked.

I stood at the end of the aisle with one shoe on and the other in my hand. Behind us, the florist was trimming roses over a plastic bucket. Somewhere in the hotel kitchen, trays rattled and a machine released a long sigh of steam.

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What is The Front-Row Seat about?

On his wedding morning Daniel ties a white ribbon around a small wooden box and sets it on the front-row chair. Milo has been gone eleven months.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.