"Don't listen to your grandmother, she has all these quaint 21st century notions about romantic love. She'll tell you that you don't need a dowery since if a man really loves you he wouldn't care. It's all very fantastical."
"Do you think they really lived like that? No marriage brokers? No IPO for the new couple?"
"Oh they did! Sometimes they didn't even perform a merger, or they had kid without merging their concerns. Or they had no concerns! It was barbaric." #writing#fiction#microhorror