“Out There,” by Kate Folk | The New Yorker

Fiction by Kate Folk: “The early blots had been easy to identify. They were too handsome, for one thing.”

Save this story Save this story Audio: Kate Folk reads. I was putting myself out there. On my return to San Francisco from a bleak Thanksgiving with my surviving relatives in Illinois, I downloaded Tinder, Bumble, and a few other apps I’d seen Instagram ads for. I resolved to pass judgment on several hundred men per day, and to make an effort to message the few I matched with. I’d never liked the idea of finding a romantic partner on an app, the way you’d order pizza or an Uber. To further complicate matters, it was estimated that fifty per cent of men on dating apps in the city were now blots

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