This started as one of those little thought experiments that I like to write down on index cards and shuffle through whenever I'm at a loss of ideas to write about, and when I first wrote it down I thought "this'll be fun, but I'll never turn this into a story." I'd always stop and look at it when shuffling idly through my Ideas Index, but it was always just long enough to stop and think "yeah, that sounds cool," and then move on. So, when I finally picked up and decided to give the idea a try, I thought I'd probably get maybe 500 words before the whole thing'd putter out and I could retire the index card to my "Well, It Was A Valiant Attempt" bin (AKA -- recycling bin!) and be done with it. I'm actually quite proud to say that I not only hit my 500 word expectation, but actually managed ten times -more- than I could have ever hoped for!

Here's what I ended up tapping out.

"What happens when online dating becomes so prevalent, it becomes the new arranged marriages?"