The Fox Behind Home Plate
Marcus stood at home plate, baseball bat gripped tight, sweat dripping down his temple. The summer sun blazed over Lincoln Field where the Riverdale Bears — his school's team — wer...
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Marcus stood at home plate, baseball bat gripped tight, sweat dripping down his temple. The summer sun blazed over Lincoln Field where the Riverdale Bears — his school's team — wer...
Maya's hair was supposed to be perfect for homecoming. She'd spent two hours straightening it, only for the California humidity to turn it into a frizz explosion by third period. "...
The first party of junior year. Jake's pool. Basically social suicide territory if I messed this up. I'd spent forty-five minutes on my hair—curling it just right, hoping the humi...
The summer before sophomore year, I spent every Friday evening **swimming** laps at the Chandler Community Pool while my Instagram stories collected dust. Social anxiety hits diffe...
I looked like a straight-up zombie. Finals week had turned me into something that shambled instead of walked, my eyes doing that weird twitchy thing from three nights of what my mo...
The pool party at Jordan's house was already giving Maya major anxiety, and she'd only been there fifteen minutes. Her cousin had insisted she come—"you can't spend the whole summe...
The bathroom mirror showed a stranger. My hair, previously shoulder-length and dependable, now looked like I'd stuck my finger in an electrical socket. The box promised "sun-kissed...
Maya clutched her **iphone** like it was a lifeline, thumb scrolling through the same three Instagram posts for the fifth time. Jackson's house party raged around her—red solo cups...
Maya's mom started the conversation at 7:03 AM, same as every morning. "Did you take your vitamin D? The research says teens are deficient." Maya swallowed the orange tablet with...
Maya's palms were sweating so much she considered it a miracle her phone didn't slip right out of her hand and onto the pavement. This was it. Jordan's house party. The social even...
Maya stood by the edge of the pool, clutching her iPhone like a lifeline. The senior class splash party was in full swing—literally—and she'd spent the last forty-five minutes pret...
The summer before freshman year, I spent three weeks' worth of babysitting money on a bottle of hair vitamins because Maya Chen posted an Instagram story captioned "hair growth jou...