Volume 1, No. 1

The Plague / Hooper ... 7 

vaccinated herself that morning with the required "B.f.p." on the palm of her hand, sometime during the heat of the day it had slid off and was left in a sweaty puddle somewhere. This was serious. One of us was now infected.
The infection of Tina Smith by Brian Banks lead to mass pre-pubescent hysteria among the Grade 4 girls. The "B.f.p." vaccination was no longer strong enough. At Charlene Miller's command, "B.f.p." was immediately changed to "S.B.F.P." - "Super Boy Flea Proof." Now, if you weren't "S.B.F.P." you were dead. In a frenzy of female paranoia, "S.B.F.P." got written everywhere - on desk tops, on blackboards, on washroom doors, even on the ceiling of one of the Grade 4 classrooms.
Cynthia Sweeney, the teacher's pet, got caught in the frenzy and took it upon herself to protect Miss Gordon from the epidemic. What Cynthia didn't realize, and what none of us would tell her because she was such a