\u201cIf there\u2019s doubt, say no.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow\u2019s saying no going to help, mother? A big bull like that, once his head\u2019s all addled by lust, ain’t no one\u2019s going to stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s up to him if he won\u2019t hear you. You\u2019ve done your part. Given him fair warning to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then what? Just lie back and let him have his way, safe in the knowledge that at least I protested?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course not, dearie,\u201d the maid\u2019s mother said. \u201cYou\u2019ll gently put your hands around his neck, and with those lacquered nails of yours, slice those throbbing veins of his apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
She put down her scissors, and showed her daughter the mirror.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s how I brought your father down to size.\u201d<\/p>\n
__________<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
1. Written in February 2019<\/em> \u201cIf there\u2019s doubt, say no.\u201d \u201cHow\u2019s saying no going to help, mother? A big bull like that, once his head\u2019s all addled by lust, ain’t no one\u2019s going to stop him.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s up to him if he won\u2019t hear you. You\u2019ve done your part. Given him fair warning to stop.\u201d \u201cAnd then what? Just lie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,105,21,383,976,508,967,975,516],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-thousand-and-one-tales","tag-a-thousand-and-one-tales","tag-abuse","tag-fairy-tales","tag-injustice","tag-justice","tag-marriage","tag-punishment","tag-retaliation","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3090,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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