The Bullpen Secret
Marcus adjusted his battered orange baseball cap, trying to look casual. But his palms were sweating, and not just from the June heat. Today was tryouts for the varsity team, and h...
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Marcus adjusted his battered orange baseball cap, trying to look casual. But his palms were sweating, and not just from the June heat. Today was tryouts for the varsity team, and h...
Maya stood at the edge of the padel court, clutching her rented racquet like it might explode. The summer social scene of fifteen-year-olds in Oak Creek clustered around the chain-...
Maya's iPhone battery held at 4%—dying, just like her social life. The pool party at Chloe's house raged around her, but Maya stood frozen near the hedge, clutching her charging ca...
Maya's social life had been reduced to a tangled **cable** of connections that frayed more every day. After her friends ditched her for the popular crowd sophomore year, she'd beco...
Maya stood outside the community center, clutching her **padel** racket like it might explode. Three weeks into summer break, and her mom had already signed her up for lessons with...
Marcus slid into the cafeteria booth beside me, eyes glowing with that terrifying enthusiasm that usually meant bad decisions were incoming. Bro, you have to get in on this ground ...
The orange hair dye splattered all over my mom's pristine white bathroom tile, looking like a crime scene from a citrus murder investigation. My hands shook, not from the DIY dye j...
The pool party was in full swing, chlorine and expensive perfume mixing in the humidity. I stood by the snack table, nursing a lukewarm soda, watching Jordan—the human sphinx of ou...
Kai's palms were sweating. Like, actually sweating—gross, clammy, the kind that makes you wipe your hands on your jeans three times before entering a room. And this wasn't just any...
I was basically a zombie all summer—pale from staying inside, eyes glazed from endless zombie movie marathons, moving through life like the undead. My social battery was at zero pe...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her red solo cup like a lifeline. The water shimmered blue and tempting under the patio lights, but she wasn't about to explain why sh...
Maya stared at her iPhone screen, the blue light illuminating her nervous face in the darkness of her bedroom. Three notifications from the group chat—all from Jordan. Everyone els...