She had a system.
Spend the whole first date hiding behind her phone; if that didn’t faze her potential suitor, he could handle her other terrible habits and her social anxiety and her strange particularities.
She called it the screening.
If he passed, he deserved her.
This post is part of the A-Z Challenge. My theme is April Scribble, which includes microfiction, small vignettes, and poetry.
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Want a bonus poem with the same title? Try my Microvember haiku: Screen.
Victim to Charm 
Great work on your theme!
Keep it going!
Heather M. Gardner / @hmgardner
Co-Host, Blogging from A to Z April Challenge
The Waiting is the Hardest Part
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Thank you, Heather!!
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Rofl, screening! Love it.
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I had fun with this one ;)
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That’s quite a clever idea ;-)
@JazzFeathers
The Old Shelter – Jazz Age Jazz
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Not sure I’d ever do it, but it’s certainly a distinctive process ;)
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