Bill Tope

Class of ’95

by Bill Tope & Doug Hawley Alicia raced across the busy street, which was choked with after-the-bar traffic. She checked her watch: it was a quarter to 2am. Leaping from the pavement onto the curb, her foot slipped and twisted painfully on the wet grass.

Pick

by Bill Tope In the basement of the high school gym, the boys were gathered round the wrestling mat next to the Universal Gym, waiting their turn to do pushups. “Forty pushups gets you an A,” barked Coach Hamm, the varsity football coach and instructor for the junior boys’ PE classes. “Thirty gets you a […]

Scold

by Bill Tope 1 Alicia Menendez frowned unhappily down at the rejection slip clutched in her fingers. Just home from work, she had printed it out from an email she received only minutes ago. Alicia had subbed this mag only four days ago and they lost no time in turning down her story. Most journals […]

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