Life is a Rom-Com in Three Acts

Act 2, where the boy is caught flirting with the cute photographer

Jack Herlocker
6 min readJun 24, 2024
Image generated using Microsoft Bing Image Designer (“teenage boy in suit talking to 30-something female photographer with her equipment in a fancy hotel lobby”) edited to remove the backpack that the fraking AI insisted all young people wear 🙄

Lou found Ashley sitting in a corner of the ballroom, sipping something dark from a glass while scrolling through her phone. “Hey, Ashley, got a minute? I got a question for you.”

Ashley closed her phone and gave Lou her full attention. “Well, I have all my pre-wedding shots…

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Jack Herlocker

Husband & retiree. Developer, tech writer, & IT geek. I fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches. Occasionally do weird & goofy things.