Jaycee Woods

The plot pattern of most of my drafts that are part of my _Misadventures of Chad Seeking a Wife_ series are consistent. Chad goes on a blind date, tests the woman for red flags, finds one or all of them, then tries to explain to her why this is their last date. A few times his date did not have any red flags. However, in the scope of the novel, only the café waitress Audrey has no red flags on a date with Chad; she is the one who consoles him after his prior blind dates and mixes him a special coattail that she calls her love potion. Thus, those other flagless dates end up as alternative endings for inclusion in a companion anthology of short stories.

While formatting one of the alternate endings, featuring Ayesha, I was struck that it is simply a normal regular mundane successful blind date story. However, in current year that is remarkable in that many young women and men report that they have never been on a date or had a relationship; despite many of those women having professional levels of unpaid promiscuity. Strange that something once so normal, a story about a successful date, would be like a time capsule from a strange forgotten world to those of dating age in current year.