Ile Forest By Ursula K. Le Guin (theanarchistlibrary.org)
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She was awake, my sleeping beauty. He had waked her; he had given her what she lacked, and what few men could have given her: the sense of peril, which is the root of love. Now she needed what she had always had and never needed, her serenity, her strength. I stared at her and finally said, “You mean to live with him?”

Beautiful prose, rips into the human soul even if it is a very short story.

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