How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis
I slumped to the ground, eyes tightly shut, the sound of her footsteps quickly receding into the woods.
The natural order of things is for the man to pursue the woman. He tries to woo her with charm and gifts and lies, and if she falls for it, they bang. Or get married, or whatever. Biology doesn’t require people to be soulmates or to have a love beyond space and time, it just needs a window of somewhere between seven and fifteen minutes. Everything else is just set dressing.
After that, you can spend your lives together if you want, raise a family, grow bored of each other, start looking at other people as possible alternatives — a range of options usually grouped under the umbrella of ‘hap