Issue 02 — The Profile

Read someone
before you see them.

Pictures lie politely. Prompts don't. Philtrum profiles begin with sentences — small, specific, unfilterable — and the photos come later, if at all.

Prompt · 01

"The last thing I cried about,"

was a Mary Oliver poem read aloud by my sister.

Prompt · 02

"On a Sunday, you'd find me"

rearranging a bookshelf I just rearranged last week.

Prompt · 03

"I'd rather lose an argument than"

win it by pretending I don't care.

Prompt · 04

"An unreasonable craving:"

ramen at 3am, eaten standing up, lights off.

"I knew her in the second sentence. The photo only confirmed something I'd already decided to risk."

— Beta tester, August