Published Work > Taste Test: Blind Dates (The Cure)

The Cure can be found along with two other stories revolving around blind dates at Taste Test: Blind Dates, an anthology published by Torquere Press, and is available in e-book format.

Blind Dates have a rotten reputation for a reason. They can be risky, at best, but not all of them have to end badly.

In The Cure by Jodi Payne, researcher Jeremy humors his friend and meets Ben for a blind date. He thinks Ben is a little too arrogant, and decides there won't be a second date, but Ben's bravery in the face of danger might just change his mind.

In Dinner and a Movie, by Alex Marcus-Jacobs, Mark's co-worker sets him up with another man, thinking it will be a great joke. Mark fools everyone, though, when he lets his curiosity have free rein.

And in Catching Out, by Lee Benoit, Al is ready to take on a new relationship, so his family and friends set him up on a slew of blind dates. When he meets Mole, he sees a whole new life opening up. Can Al find the courage to go for it? Find out how these blind dates turn out!

Excerpt

Ironing was an art form that Jeremy hadn't mastered yet. His mother had tried, oh so many years ago, to teach him the right way to iron his dress shirts. Start with the collar, then the shoulders, then the sleeves, don't let the iron stop moving, don't set it too hot, don't forget to iron under the buttons. His pinpoint blue Oxford hung on a wooden hanger over the back of his bedroom door and it lookedÉ okay. It wasn't the wrinkled mess it had been when it came out of the dryer, but it wasn't the starched, crisp thing his mother would have produced for him without breaking a sweat.

If it weren't for the fact that he was trying to make a good first impression, Jeremy wouldn't have cared so much. But tonight was The Date.

Bill had set him up with a friend of a friend, someone Bill knew from volleyball or something. All Jeremy knew was that his date's name was Aaron and he was older than Jeremy, in his early forties. Jeremy was thirty-two, but Bill kept telling him that once you hit thirty, age just isn't an issue anymore.

Sure, Jeremy thought skeptically, whatever you say, Bill.

Jeremy didn't think he was as desperate for company as his friends seemed to believe. Sure, he and Dan had split up over a year ago, but he'd been enjoying the single life. He had the remote to himself, no dirty laundry in the corner of the bedroom, no dishes left in the sink. No one to fight for the shower in the morning. It was good.

He did kind of miss sex, though.

Okay, hell, he missed sex a lot.

For more of Jeremy and his hot date, buy Taste Test: Blind Dates at Torquere Press.

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