warning: horror and unreality elements

Date a sphinx who’s eager to see your wits tested against his own. Take him up in his verbal dance, match him step for step.

Date the moon

Date a darling with a broken heart. Answer the courting efforts of that creature who’s heartbeat thuds out of sync.

Date a man who does the dishes and tends to the hearth. Whose laughter crackles like fire. Who always smells vaguely of smoke and whiskey.

Date a girl who is as fascinated with what’s on your insides as your outsides… On the upside, she’s more than happy to stitch you up if you get injured. Maybe a little too happy.

Date a woman of the winds with silver in her hair. She is a perennial lover, but she brings with her the joys of foreign lands, and stories that keep you up late listening to. Don’t fear, darling, she misses you too. Don’t worry, darling- she wants to hear all about that other lovely lady you’ve taken fancy to.

Date a young man who cannot rest. It has been days since he has slept. When he joins you in bed, he lays there, keeping you safe in the long dark night. His words and mind are not his own, right now. He aches to rest. When you wake up, the scent of coffee fills your home. He laughs, when you beg him to close his eyes. His work is not done.

Date a woman with a strong back, who always seems so tired in the daytime. Date a woman who sneaks around like shadows, with grime under her nails, and contacts in medical colleges. Date a woman who has a vulture’s sensibilities. Date a scavenger.

date a boy who keeps his longing voice a whisper. His pains consume him. He aches. He wants you to hold his hand. try not to mind the strength in his grasp.

Date a weary darling, whose studies exhaust hyn to the bone. Hy cannot rest, but at least, when hy tells you one of hyi stories, hy sounds happy.

Date a man whose fey laughter returns to you in the dead of night, long since after he’s left your apartment for his own home.