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?

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