Matchmaker is now on Kobo.

Is it silly to say I really like this story when I’m the one who wrote it? You can get it on Kobo for 99 cents.

Matchmaker: A Short Story, by James L. Wilber

I make people. I make your perfect match, your best friend, your true love. I make them alluring, breathtaking, hard as hell to resist. All the data that goes into a human being, memories, genetics, biochemistry, I collect and process that information. I put it together, mix and match to taste, and spit out the person you’re going to fall in love with.

They’re 100% real, and 100% virtual.

But is that enough? Where’s the spark? What’s the thing that makes love true?

Matchmaker is a short story set fifteen minutes into the future where the rich buy online people to call their own. 

Magic will not free itself from occultism until we have strangled the last astrologer with the guts of the last spiritual master.

Peter J. Carroll (via oscotarach)

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‘Fairy rings’ in moss, Rainbow Mountains region near the Laugavegur trekking route, Iceland. Carpets of moss are common in Iceland’s highland regions. This photo shows a peculiar natural formation, known in Icelandic as “witch’s rings".

Photo credit: Petr Brož