I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

by Peter S. Beagle

men believe themselves to be all straight lines and right angles—an illusion you will find it important to allow them, though in fact they are as hopelessly snarled as a ball of yarn after a cat gets through playing with it. Part of their charm,

“Robert, my one companion, love of my life forever, ‘let’ is not a word you will use to me again.”