Best of The Weather: Year One
Holy hell it’s getting hot in here. And why? Because today, exactly one year after we humbly went live, we present Trop’s first ever BEST OF THE WEATHER. 1. For sticking to the editorial mission the…
Holy hell it’s getting hot in here. And why? Because today, exactly one year after we humbly went live, we present Trop’s first ever BEST OF THE WEATHER. 1. For sticking to the editorial mission the…
Readers! Exactly one year ago today, with a pink and green site, big dreams, and little clue of what was to come, Trop went live—Happy Birthday to us! It’s been a wild year, one filled with…
Sugway Los Angeles, Los Angeles 5 Stars They kept asking me if I wanted it toasted. They cut the bread and laid it out. “Toasted?” the guy said. “No,” I said. “Toasted sandwiches do not work…
1: Written on 3/22/13 before I left Los Angeles for Laughlin, Nevada, a place my friend Ian calls a “cluster of off-strip-style casinos on the Colorado River where few people are younger than forty.” Also written…
This is the first installment of a new series in which Trop writers answer the discussion questions in the backs of books like The Help. 1. Who was your favorite character? Why? Minny. Because she shat…
In order to continue coverage of our own commencement address contest, which is open for submissions only until March 31 and pays real cash prizes, Trop sent out word to its writers, editors, friends, and affiliates…
This morning I got an email from my aunt Edie. She’d read the interview I did with my cousin—her son—Silas, about what he, a high school sophomore, wanted to hear from his school’s commencement speaker this…
On March 19, in order to lend a hand to potential entrants in Trop’s short fake commencement address contest, which is open for submissions for just barely one week more and promises prestige, cash, and publication…
This is the first fantasy story in Tom’s new collection. One I’d boil it all down to sexual intercourse, with the kind of women I’ve seen on TV. Pretty ones. Busty ones. Then it doesn’t go…
As you may know, Trop is having a commencement address writing contest. And as you may be able to infer, we’d like you to enter it. But we here at Trop would be the first to acknowledge that writing a…
This is the second chapter of Emma and Tom’s Team Writing experiment. For the first “Happy Couple” chapter, click here. Inside the car I tighten the cloth around my eyes, working a knot at the…
Dear Readers, We have an announcement: We’re having a contest. It’s a commencement address contest—known in full as the Trop Short Fake College or High School Class President Commencement Address Contest—and I’d like to tell you about…
To start Nightmares of Hell at the beginning, click here. … Author’s Note—Well guys, the seaman’s dead, and how ’bout that. He died last chapter, which seems like eons ago. Maybe it was two weeks ago. But unfortunately for…
To start Nightmares of Hell at the beginning, click here. … Author’s Note—What’s up, guys. First of all I just want to say it’s been awesome hearing so many kind words about Nightmares of Hell from…
Author’s Note—The Head and Neck Consultation Suite is a bad health memoir. It’s a memoir of the boy that I was—a stricken boy, a boy with all the odds against him. Odds which, you will soon…
To start Nightmares of Hell at the beginning, click here. … Author’s Note—Sometimes, in books, there’s a lot more happening than you realize. You think you’re in a set piece, with a man and a man-child…
Dear Readers, ’Tis the season. The season for colored lights, hot drinks, and truck commercials that put big red bows on big bad masculinity. ’Tis the season for making sure the presents you’re given confirm that your family loves…