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Short love stories continue to be popular on the internet.

It’s the jolt. It’s the rush. Love is in the air, but you have to pull it down. Reading about the ups and downs of lovers is a magical route to sourcing it in real life, attraction by like attraction. Another way of looking at it is: getting the brain used to the chemistry so you’ll recognize it out in the world. The last thing a person needs is the jolt with no reality. So readers of short love stores on the internet are in effect, hopefully, setting expectation in their own hearts for what is possible.

Is this perverse? Is it ‘cheating?’ Another way of putting this question is: are you talking yourself into believing something that otherwise would just be an “itch?” Those that truly believe in love will of course say no, that searching for and reading short love stories on the internet is a celebration of truth. One’s worthy goal. Arming up in the fight to ward off the non-believer, the cynic and the world-weary.

One of the arguments by the naysayers: “It will fade. You will be depressed. You will do stupid things. You will be unable to undo stupid things you did while under the influence.” To the believer, this is a sad argument. Hilariously, they might wish the cynical to take a dose of that which they denounce, to send them to the internet to read a whole bunch of short love stories.