Skipping Church

Desert Rat Residency / Sept. 14, 2024

It was a good plan until it wasn’t. I mean, how were we supposed to know the church would send a statement of total donated money at the end of the month? How were we supposed to know the Catholic Church was a business and a religious entity. That piece of paper arrived in our mailbox and informed our parents that they had donated exactly zero dollars into the coffer. The church could smell our sin as if it was bacon fresh off the griddle. It allowed our transgressions to go on for exactly twenty-three days. And our parents were not happy about this ruse. Not one bit.