The Day I Didn't Die
I'd been moving through life like a zombie for weeks—AP chem tests crushing my soul, college applications lurking like monsters in my group chat, my phone blowing up with expectati...
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I'd been moving through life like a zombie for weeks—AP chem tests crushing my soul, college applications lurking like monsters in my group chat, my phone blowing up with expectati...
The party was already in full swing when Maya arrived, the bass vibrating through the soles of her knock-off Vans. She'd spent forty-five minutes on her makeup just to look like sh...
Marcus's vintage corduroy hat sat perched on his head like a crown of awkwardness. He'd found it at a thrift store—tan, stained, definitely not cool—but somehow it had become his s...
Maya dragged herself through the cafeteria, feeling like a certified zombie. Third period AP Calc had a way of doing that to a person. Her messy bun was already falling apart, stra...
Maya's iphone buzzed in her palm as she slouched against the bleachers, watching the soccer team practice. Another TikTok notification she didn't care about. Senior year was suppos...
Maya's social life had always resembled a pyramid scheme—she was at the bottom, looking up at the popular kids who seemed to exist in an entirely different stratosphere. So when Ch...
The carnival goldfish stared at me through its plastic bag like it knew I was about to ruin everything. "You're actually doing this?" Maya asked, raising an eyebrow as she adjuste...
The sun was already melting into the horizon when I started running. Not the fun kind—the kind where you're trying to catch the bus because your mom threatened to ground you if you...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her phone like a lifeline. The humidity was already frizzing her curls, and she'd been here exactly four minutes but it felt like four...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her vitamin D supplement bottle like it was some kind of armor. Her mom had shoved it at her that morning, going on about how she's pa...
Maya dragged herself through third period algebra feeling like a straight-up zombie. Three consecutive nights of TikTok doom-scrolling will do that to a person. Her vitamin D level...
Marcus quit baseball three days ago and hadn't told anyone yet. "You coming to the game Friday?" Tyler asked, spinning a baseball on his finger like it was nothing. They were at t...