She watched the woman named Stella adjusting her wedding veil in the mirror. Moving beside her, their eyes met in reflection.

“Please don’t marry him or you’ll be unhappy the rest of your life.”

Stella turned to her. “Are you a distant cousin?”

“I’m your granddaughter,” she said and disappeared.

Susan Cornford is a retired public servant, living in Perth, Western Australia. To date, she has (co)won only one competition but has been short-listed or made finalist for numerous others. She has pieces published or forthcoming in Antipodean Science Fiction, Ghost Parachute, Switchblade, The Fable Online, The Gambler and The Vignette Review. She now considers herself an emerging flash writer.