The Summer We Didn't Die
The air conditioning in Maya's basement was dead, leaving us feeling like actual zombies after our third zombie movie marathon. Fourteen-year-old me, sandwiched between the cooler ...
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The air conditioning in Maya's basement was dead, leaving us feeling like actual zombies after our third zombie movie marathon. Fourteen-year-old me, sandwiched between the cooler ...
Maya knew something was off when her best friend since kindergarten, Kayla, started sitting with the popular crowd at lunch. Like, *actually* sitting there. Not just making awkward...
I pulled my **hat** down lower, basically disappearing into the brim. Classic avoidance tactic. The school **baseball** game was cranking, and I was wedged between the bleachers an...
Marcus checked his iPhone for the third time in two minutes. Nothing from Skylar. The text had been on delivered for forty-five minutes, which basically meant she was ignoring him ...
Maya felt like a straight-up **zombie** as she dragged herself into Jordan's backyard graduation party. Three days of finals, two all-nighters, and approximately zero hours of slee...
Mateo's legs burned as he kept running, each step a rebellion against the quiet suburban street. Three AM was for secrets, and tonight his secret weighed five ounces in his pocket....
The goldfish blinked at me with its dead, glassy eye. "You're still alive?" I whispered, sprinkling those weird flakes that smelled like regret. "My great aunt won you at a carniv...
The rain pounded against the cafeteria windows, matching the rhythm of my thumping heart. I'd been running from Caleb all week, ever since I'd accidentally DM'd him that screenshot...
The hat was everything. A beat-up Cubs cap that had seen three summers of sweat, secrets, and anxiety. Marcus pulled the brim lower as he slouched against the concession stand, wis...
Maya's palms were practically monsooning as she stood across from Caleb at the spring mixer. This was it—the moment she'd been lowkey freaking out about for three weeks. Caleb, wit...
The orange stain on my white Vans was basically a crime against freshman year fashion. I'd been standing by the punch bowl for twenty minutes, nursing the same cup of flat orange s...
Maya's thumb hovered over the 'post' button, her iPhone screen glowing in her darkened bedroom. Another pyramid scheme. Not the money kind—the social kind. At the base were the kid...