Don’t I live here?
Aren’t you glad to see me home? You haven’t even given me a kiss.
HOMECOMING BY JOE HERRERA 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 107
Answer the fucking door bitch? Maybe she’s not at home. But she knows I’m coming. Maybe I said Sunday and not Saturday. But I’m sure I said Saturday. What if she didn’t get the email? She must have got it. She didn’t answer it. She never fucking answers them.
Hey Mick. I was around the back. I heard you knocking but I was around the back. Jeez, he’s changed, he’s a stranger. And he’s angry because I let him stand here so long. Did he expect me to be waiting at the door with open arms?
What does she mean by that? I look different? Well, Trish, you look the same to me, as beautiful as ever.
Oh, go on Mick.
No, you do.
Really?
She fucking got her hair cut short. I hate her with short hair. She knows that. And yet the fucking bitch goes and gets it cut short. You got your hair cut.
You like it?
Bit short.
Not too short is it?
A bit, you look a bit like a dyke.
You don’t like it s…