They were reduced to talking about the weather and they both sighed and he said, I’m going to stare at my phone now, and so she did the same.

It was a not-so-blind date. After all, they had each studied their respective avatars carefully. I’m disappointed, he admitted. She was too.

The dust settled over the town. The sheriff said, We need a drycleaner or whatnot. His deputy held his gun tight. He felt change in the wind.