Without costume or painted face, he played the clown. He became the one who made her smile, while she became the world.

It was cold the day they married, but the biting wind brought consolation, helping to freeze his own smile in place as he read his best man speech.

Anna Sanderson is a writer and performer from Nottingham, England. She writes about the world as she sees it, hoping to make a small, positive change, one word at a time. She has been published online and in numerous zines and anthologies, and is currently working on her first novel. Follow her on Twitter.