Summary

The fourth story, “Our Dope Future”, takes the form of an anonymous post on a Reddit-like message board, written in the first person by the story’s narrator, a 37 year old man who is involved in a series of questionable-sounding start-ups. The man is posting his story to the message board seeking advice and opinions about recent events between him and a woman named Alison, who it becomes apparent is Alison from the second story “PICS”.

The author of the post refers to matching with Alison on a dating app and messaging her for months, before letting slip that she did not reply to any of the messages over these several months. Eventually, for reasons not revealed here, Alison relented and agreed to a date. The author claims that the date was successful but it is not at all difficult to read...