Modern Keres

Okay that draft story that I didn’t remember writing turned out to be one I like.

A man and woman met for a blind date. He is a complete flat prick, so the date is going horribly. As she calls him out for his behavior, she asks the typical, “Who hurt you?” Contrary to the orthodox narrative, reluctantly he honestly opened up and answered the question. She helped him to better understand how a prior failed relationship shaped his subsequent life and how he treated women; meanwhile the conversation established genuine trust and connection between the blind daters.

After rereading it, I decided that the story was metaphorically like a gender swapped Orpheus descending into the underworld to retrieve Eurydice. So, I renamed the characters Orphea and Eurydion respectively. The cheating ex-girlfriend who ruined Eurydion for women was renamed Keren; after the Keres, mythical Greek female spirits of violent or cruel death, often described as carrying off the dead and dying from battlefields (in this case modern dating).

The working title of the story is now “Modern Keres.”