The Summer I Stopped Floating
My **hair** had always been the one thing I could control—a perfect mess of curls that announced 'I'm eccentric' before I even spoke. But at 15, suddenly the curls weren't enough. ...
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My **hair** had always been the one thing I could control—a perfect mess of curls that announced 'I'm eccentric' before I even spoke. But at 15, suddenly the curls weren't enough. ...
Maya's cat wasn't supposed to be at the baseball field. But Barnaby—this tubby, orange disaster of a feline—had other plans. He'd escaped somehow, and now she was sprinting across ...
The neon lights of the padel court hummed, reflecting in the sweat on my forehead. I adjusted my grip on the racquet, my palms already clammy. "You got this, Leo," Maya called fro...
I never thought I'd be the kind of person to literally hide behind a dumpster, but here I was, crouching beside the recycling bins behind the community center, clutching my dog Bus...
Maya's hair refused to cooperate. It was pool party season, and somehow her curls had declared mutiny. She'd spent forty-five minutes with the flat iron, but the humidity was alrea...
The backyard lights flickered like someone was messing with the dimmer switch. Then came the actual lightning—a jagged crack across the sky that made everyone at Maya's graduation ...
Maya's cat Comet sat on her windowsill, tail twitching with what looked suspiciously like judgment. The neighborhood cats were having another one of their midnight meetings, and Co...
Maya's phone buzzed for the fiftieth time that morning. Her iphone lay face-up on her desk like a desperate friend begging for attention, screen lighting up with another notificati...
Marcus stood outside the gym, his stomach doing that familiar flip-flop thing that happened whenever Blake was around. Blake, the human embodiment of a **bull** in a china shop, al...
Maya's thumbs hovered over her cracked screen, instagram loading at turtle speed. Another sunset picture from Jordan—the fourth one this week. She tapped the heart anyway, because ...
Maya stared at her reflection, fingers tangled in her curly hair. The straightener had died mid-section, leaving her with this half-frizzy, half-sleek monstrosity. Perfect. Tonight...
Chloe's dad worked for the cable company, which meant two things: their basement was a graveyard of coaxial cables and ethernet cords, and she had technically-free premium channels...