Status Updates From Blood in the Thread

"Did you stop to wonder how the crane came to the man’s doorstep in the first place?

“Marry me,” you beg.

Did he shoot her out of the sky himself?"

"The man grows curious or he forgets or he ignores the consequences or he simply doesn’t care. The point is: Eventually he disregards his wife’s one request. He looks@

"When buyers praise his wife’s work, he tells them all how he is desperately, deeply, achingly in love.

(Do not ask, ever: Would the crane wife be able to say the same?)"

"In any case, it is always the same: The man falls in love.

(Does the woman?)

In any case, they marry."

"“Marry me,” you practice whispering as she sleeps. Anything feels possible with her body warm next to yours." s i g h