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60 Wait Till Your Father Comes Home Matthew Wilson “Wait till your father comes home,” Mother said when Andy accidentally broke a window. He hadn’t meant to play rough, but it was a stormy night and he was bored. He tried to help, to make Mom happy and sweep up. She screamed when he bumped into a table and broke an expensive porcelain doll, too. “Wait till your father comes home,” Mother said and headed to the kitchen, seething. Father had always been the strong one. The one who went to work, chopping trees in the forest. Andy thought of father’s strength, and he was scared. Would father strike him with those huge hands? Hit him hard enough to take his head off his shoulders? Shaking in fear, Andy sat on the sofa, too afraid to turn on the TV. He was determined not to move. If he stayed perfectly still... he couldn’t
possibly make more trouble for himself. “Wait till your father comes home.” Mother said from the kitchen, laughing, and Andy thought he might scream or go mad. Someone knocked on the door. Bang - bang! He was here. Father was here. “Don’t let him in.” Andy pleaded. Mother stormed to the door, shaking her wet hands dry from the dishes. “I told you to be good enough times.” Mother opened the door to a bolt of lightning. The dead man stood and watched them. His rotten withered skin barely clung to his rib cage like a mouldy coat. The hangman’s rope clung still round his neck, his black tongue lagged in his open, wormy mouth. “This is what happens to bad people.” Mother said. Ashamed to have married a murderer. “I’ll be good!” Andy sobbed. “I will. I will.” Father took no notice. He’d been away for a month now, alone in his tomb. Smiling, he hobbled forward. And came into the room to welcome his son in his cold, fleshless arm. 61
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