The Woman Who Married A Cloud: The Collected Short Stories - Plot & Excerpts
He had to. You see a face like that perhaps twice in your life. If you don’t chase it, you’re doomed. Doomed to looking at yourself in a mirror late at night wondering what would that woman have been like? What might have happened if I’d been bold enough to introduce myself? Maybe she would have smiled and come for coffee. Maybe she was as amazing as she looked. Maybe she was cool. Maybe she was hot! Maybe everything in my life would have changed the moment we met and today I’d be a hundred miles away from here, someplace so much better I can’t even imagine. But most men don’t run after her because she scares them. Nothing frightens a man more than a woman whose looks so pierce him he knows he’ll do anything, set fire to his mother, to be with that essential face. A fact women still don’t believe or understand—they can stop a man cold, no matter who he is, and leave him paralyzed, deeply shaken. Sometimes on the verge of a kind of madness. Truly, women can undermine everything that a man is with one glance.
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