Running with Midnight
The hair thing started last Tuesday. I stared in the bathroom mirror, clippers buzzing in my hand like an angry hornet, and thought about how much easier life would be if I just bu...
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The hair thing started last Tuesday. I stared in the bathroom mirror, clippers buzzing in my hand like an angry hornet, and thought about how much easier life would be if I just bu...
Maya dragged herself through third period AP Bio feeling like a straight-up zombie. Two weeks of finals plus her phone blowing up with notifications until 3 AM will do that to you....
My hair had never looked worse. Three inches of choppy dyed-black layers fell over my eyes like a curtain I couldn't see through, which was exactly the point. Summer before freshma...
The invite to the pool party sat in my phone like a dare. Tyler's text was still there from third period: "u coming? 🏊♂️" I'd been staring at it for twenty minutes while my room g...
Maya's first day at Westwood Academy wasn't going according to plan. She'd somehow ended up in P.E. during third period, standing on padel court four while everyone else seemed to ...
I'd been running on zombie mode for three weeks straight. Junior year was eating my brain cells one APUSH deadline at a time, and tonight's rager at Jake's house was exactly what I...
The clock read 2:47 AM when Maya dragged herself into my room, looking like the walking dead. Three days of finals week had officially turned us both into zombies—complete with dar...
Maya's hair had other plans today. The humidity had turned her carefully straightened waves into a frizz explosion, and she was already regretting spending twenty minutes on someth...
Maya stood in front of her bathroom mirror, questioning every life choice that led to this moment. Her hair, once a source of pride, now looked like a tragic science experiment gon...
Freshman year, and Maya was already drowning in the pyramid scheme known as high school hierarchy. Her older brother Jay had laid it out for her like he was explaining some ancient...
The **water** bottle wobbled on my desk, tilting toward my gaming setup like a disaster waiting to happen. I was mid-stream, trying to look cool for my fifty viewers (mostly bots, ...
The **hat** was supposed to be my armor. A beat-up Dodgers cap pulled low, shield against the fluorescent lights of Jessica's basement transformation—makeover party they called it,...