A man discovers the body of a fifteen-year-old girl washed up in a nearby creek. The young girl is twisted in river debris, donning a wedding dress and fifteen stab wounds in her chest. Unaffected by the site of the tragedy, the man takes to the corpse like a new friend. He sparks a relationship with the young rotting bride. Throughout the course of the macabre relationship, the man realizes that a cold river is no place for a friend to decay. He takes it upon himself to remedy the situation.—Anonymous