Electric in the Outfield
Maya hated baseball. She hated how her parents made her join the team, hated the way the dirt stained her favorite jeans, and most of all, hated how Jake—aka The Jake—would look ri...
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Maya hated baseball. She hated how her parents made her join the team, hated the way the dirt stained her favorite jeans, and most of all, hated how Jake—aka The Jake—would look ri...
Maya's iPhone buzzed for the third time in two minutes. Another notification from the group chat that used to be her people. Before this week, she'd been part of the squad since ki...
The pool party at Tyler's house was supposed to be legendary, but Maya spent the first hour clutching her orange juice like it was a lifeline. Everyone else was already in the wate...
Maya's phone buzzed for the third time. Her best friend Kai was already at Tyler's party, probably livestreaming the chaos. "You coming? The pyramid of solo cups is literally tal...
I stood at the edge of the pool, clutching my towel like a lifeline. Everyone else was already splashing around, laughing, looking totally comfortable in their skin. Me? I'd been o...
Maya's hair defied physics that summer. After the botched box dye incident—she'd gone for sun-kissed caramel and emerged looking like a rusty traffic cone—she'd spent three weeks i...
Maya's lungs burned like she'd swallowed hot coals. Cross-country practice wasn't supposed to be this brutal, but Coach Chen had them running the new route through Old Man Miller's...
Maya's freshman year at Northwood High had been categorized by one universal truth: the cafeteria social pyramid was as rigid as the ones in her history textbook. At the base: ever...
Chloe's phone buzzed for the third time in five minutes. *u coming?* followed by *pool party at Jake's*. She stared at her reflection—towel wrapped around her like a security blank...
The locker room smelled like old sweat and expectations. Jake stood there, staring at his reflection, wishing he could disappear into the **water** of his own anxiety. "You coming...
Maya's stomach did that thing—like she was free-falling without a parachute—as she stared at her reflection. The humid bathroom mirror fogged up, but not enough to hide the disaste...
I'd been running for months—through the cut-through behind the arcade, past the abandoned warehouse where the older kids smoked, all the way to the train tracks I wasn't supposed t...