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intheheart) wrote2019-06-21 11:06 pm
intheheart) wrote2019-06-21 11:06 pm
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Cuckqueane
Title: Cuckqueane
Rating: PG
Summary: Fatimah understands the word now.
Warnings: discussed infidelity.
Notes: All I could associate.
Fatimah heard a peculiar story once, in which men whose wives are unfaithful were called cuckolds, and 'wore the horns.' She couldn't understand then why horns were associated with unfaithfulness, nor why the onus should fall upon the man, when it was the woman who wronged him and her family.
Now she understands. Now she knows the red-hot shame of not being enough. Now she hears, or thinks she hears, the whispers, the judgment, the glee disguised as pity.
There's a word for cheated women. She looked it up-- cuckqueane. It sounds wrong, but then everything is wrong, isn't it?
Rating: PG
Summary: Fatimah understands the word now.
Warnings: discussed infidelity.
Notes: All I could associate.
Fatimah heard a peculiar story once, in which men whose wives are unfaithful were called cuckolds, and 'wore the horns.' She couldn't understand then why horns were associated with unfaithfulness, nor why the onus should fall upon the man, when it was the woman who wronged him and her family.
Now she understands. Now she knows the red-hot shame of not being enough. Now she hears, or thinks she hears, the whispers, the judgment, the glee disguised as pity.
There's a word for cheated women. She looked it up-- cuckqueane. It sounds wrong, but then everything is wrong, isn't it?