Riley, a single person looking for love on social media, want to get to know her?

Hey… it’s Riley

I like the hush right after the city exhales for the night. Portland rain tapping the tall windows, a single lamp glowing amber, the faint scent of cedar and bergamot hanging in the air. I move slowly then—bare feet on cool hardwood, hair loose, letting silence settle around my shoulders like a soft blanket.

There’s something sacred about being truly seen. Not stared at. Seen. The kind of attention that lingers on the way your breath catches when you laugh too honestly, or how your fingers trace the rim of a coffee cup while you search for the next word. I crave those slow, unguarded moments when voices drop lower and sentences trail off because the feeling arrived before the language did.

Mornings I’m quieter. I let the light crawl across the floor before I move. A long black coffee, vinyl spinning something mellow—maybe Bon Iver, maybe SZA. I write a little. Feel a lot. Wonder who else woke up carrying the same tender ache.

A few things about me

Full Name

Riley Harper Voss

Age

24

Status

Single • quietly open-hearted

Occupation

Freelance sound designer & Foley artist

Location

Portland, Oregon

Hobbies

Collecting vintage field recordings • midnight urban walks • letterpress printing • reading poetry in bed

I believe connection doesn’t shout. It whispers. It arrives in glances held one second too long, in the way someone remembers the small thing you said three weeks ago, in the comfortable quiet that doesn’t need filling.

If you’re still reading… maybe you feel it too. That pull toward something real, warm, unhurried.

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Sometimes I catch myself holding my breath when your thumb brushes the inside of my wrist—not on purpose, just resting there while we talk about nothing important. The pulse jumps anyway. I wonder if you feel it too, that small betrayal under the skin.

Last Tuesday night the streetlights turned the bedroom ceiling pale orange. You were reading something on your phone with that faint line between your brows. I lay on my side watching the way your throat moved when you swallowed, the slow rhythm of it, and I thought: this is dangerous. Not because of what might happen. Because of how safe it already feels.

The quiet keeps growing

We don’t say “I miss you” anymore. Instead you send a photo of the fog rolling over the bridge at 6:42 a.m., knowing I’ll be awake. I reply with the sound of rain hitting my skylight at 2:17 a.m. No words. Just proof that we’re both still awake in the same city, carrying the same hour.

I keep discovering new places on your body where my mouth fits exactly: the slope behind your ear, the shallow dip above your collarbone when you tip your head back to laugh. Each discovery feels like stealing something I wasn’t supposed to find. I return to them like someone checking a hidden key under a stone—still there, still mine for now.

There are nights I lie awake after you’ve fallen asleep beside me, your forearm heavy across my waist, breath slow against my shoulder. I trace the shape of your knuckles with the lightest pressure of my fingertip and feel something close to grief. Not because it will end. Because it might not. Because permanence is heavier than I expected, and I’m still learning how to carry it without flinching.

I don’t know yet if love is supposed to feel this steady and this terrifying at once. But when your hand finds mine under the blanket at 3 a.m.—not searching, just arriving—I let the question dissolve. For now that’s enough.