Consequences Obligations came due so dad turned to a church in the town of Eaton Indiana home to my second kiss and a fist that floored me in response to those lips on sacred ground. Her brothers found porn flicks which would have horrified their mom had she seen projector screen her footage. I drank an icy Coke after mowing a neighbor’s lawn on a street where a teen strolled her baby because she didn’t care what the rest of the world thought or hoped I would notice her consequence. - C. N. Bean