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. 

Skipping Church

“Fumble.” The words came out much like they always do. Without much thought. A reaction to hearing the noise of something hitting the ground. Fumble. I watched her little heart split down the middle. I watched her world shatter. Implode in on itself.

Fumble

I pick it up and see that he chose a dinosaur book for tonight’s bedtime reading. Sweet. I love dinosaurs. I pick up the hardcover book. It’s an A-Z dinosaur book. A is for Ankylosaurus. B is for Brachiosaurus. Everything is going just fine until F. 

Fuckuasaurus

“The girl with the hair,” he says it so matter-of-factly. So definitive. The girl with the hair. It’s immediately and factually stated as if every girl in our office is bald. No hair. Just a bunch of clean scalps in a sea of simple-brained men. The

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