Cope Field: Part One

by T. L. Simpson
In this hard-hitting young adult novel, Crawford Cope, a talented high school baseball pitcher, must face difficult truths about his famous father.

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Part One, Part Two, Part Three.
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  1. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
    He is laughing so hard at whatever video he is watching. Headphones on. Oblivious to how loud he is being.
  2. siphon
    convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a tube
    I do have words inside me. Raging around like wildfire. Burning up my insides. I wish I could siphon them out.
  3. devoid
    completely wanting or lacking
    Outside, the sky is devoid of clouds.
  4. unincorporated
    not organized and maintained as a legal business or area
    The place really is called Jerusalem. Not big enough for a baseball team, that much I can tell you. Not big enough for a school of any kind, either. Pops says it’s unincorporated.
  5. periphery
    the outside boundary or surface of something
    She goes to my school but is one of those people on the periphery of everything.
  6. divvy
    separate into parts or portions
    “I got a mower in the back of the truck. Y’all can divvy this up however you want.”
  7. backstop
    a structure to prevent a ball from traveling out of a field
    There’s no backstop, either.
  8. unhinged
    affected or as if affected with madness or insanity
    The unhinged ramblings of a crazy woman mixed up together with some bug-eyed anime drawings.
  9. audacity
    aggressive or outright boldness
    “What are you doing?” I ask, hardly able to believe the audacity.
  10. antithesis
    exact opposite
    So WHAT if he’s the antithesis of everything you believe in?
  11. dulcet
    pleasing to the ear
    If I’m gonna be stuck out here doing community service on some stupid field named after Pops, then I’m going to do it listening to the dulcet tones of Wiz Khalifa, not some turbo Goth weirdo.
  12. obscenity
    an offensive or indecent word or phrase
    Said she hopped a fence to the elementary school across the road and the cops had to tackle her. Drug her out in handcuffs, her hollering and screaming every obscenity you can come up with the whole way.
  13. culvert
    a transverse and enclosed drain under a road or railway
    There’s a long, twisty creek that runs alongside the field before disappearing into a culvert under the road.
  14. dissonance
    a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
    How can I fit those things together inside my brain?
    I can’t.
    That’s God’s truth.
    I cannot. And the space between them makes static. Dissonance.
  15. ideology
    an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group
    “Punk is an ideology. One sec. I’ll make you a playlist. Homework, if you will.”
Created on Tue Mar 03 06:43:40 EST 2026 (updated Wed Apr 08 18:32:11 EDT 2026)

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