This is a piece I wrote during a flash fiction course several years ago. It’s exactly 90 words long.

I'd often seen her around the office. "Deirdre. Accounts.", said a colleague once when he caught me glancing at her. That helped a lot. I knew that the people in that section were sticklers for accuracy.

I spent two weeks creating the most beautiful, elegant, efficient spreadsheet for personal budgeting ever seen. It had sections for anything you could think of. And it was incapable of making a mistake. I emailed it to her.

We're married now. Just goes to show: anyone can fish if they have the right bait!