"Match"
"All right," Judy said as she reached for her phone on the table, "it's been fifteen minutes since we submitted. Let's check."
Nick picked up his phone and tapped on the zHarmony app. It had been Judy's idea for each of them to register on the dating site while they waited for their food to arrive at the restaurant. She and Nick were perfect for each other—they'd have to match, she thought.
"What!?" the rabbit exclaimed. "How did I get 11,807 matches!?" She started scrolling through the results, every one a fellow bunny. She looked across the table to Nick. "How many did you get?"
"Zero," the fox replied. "Just a message that I'm incompatible."
Judy frowned as she put her phone back down. "I'm sorry, Nick. I thought it would be romantic to see us match with each other on a dating site. I didn't mean for this to happen."
"Carrots," Nick said as he tapped on his phone a little, "I don't care what an algorithm thinks about us. I only care what we think about us." He held his phone up for Judy to see, a photo of them hugging each other on the lock screen. "I found a perfect match, and she found me."
Another sample from the very short Zootopia stories I wrote for Twitter based on Inktober prompts. "Match" was the prompt for October 8, 2022. Published in Zootopia Scenes and Shorts on Valentine's Day 2024.