Blind Dates: Weird Stories

Every story starts with a first date. None of them end with a second.

Every story begins with someone looking for connection — a dinner date in a dimly lit restaurant, a rendezvous in a small-town hotel, a singles cruise cutting through empty Atlantic waters. The rituals are ordinary. The need is not. But in Harambee K. Grey-Sun's Blind Dates, desire is a corridor that only opens in one direction, and the face across the table has already begun to change.

A charming serial dater meets a woman whose beauty does more than captivate — it contains. A self-appointed sexual missionary drives to a rural rendezvous, never suspecting the family recipe being prepared in his honor. An aging man enters therapy for his loneliness and discovers the clinic intends to make use of every part of him. On a fantasy island where pleasure is currency, a young woman begins to remember a life she didn't know she'd lost.

These nine stories of dark literary fiction follow the moment when the craving for closeness crosses into something no longer recognizable as human. Grey-Sun builds each seduction with the same slow attention other writers reserve for violence — the careful arrangement, the patient timing, the irreversible cut. Part psychological horror, part surreal fable, Blind Dates is a collection for readers who already suspect that the most ruinous thing you can offer another person is your honest appetite.

A Grace Otherwise story collection.