Serves and Screens
The orange glow of sunset reflected off the gym windows as Maya clutched her iphone, thumb hovering over Charlie's contact. Three weeks into sophomore year at Oak Ridge Academy, an...
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The orange glow of sunset reflected off the gym windows as Maya clutched her iphone, thumb hovering over Charlie's contact. Three weeks into sophomore year at Oak Ridge Academy, an...
Maya tugged self-consciously at her newly dyed orange hair, the color screaming *look at me* while she desperately wanted to disappear. Three days ago, she'd impulsively bleached a...
Maya stared at the box dye like it was a bomb. VIBRANT TANGERINE. Her hands shook. "You're really doing this?" Leo asked from her bed, where he was supposedly tutoring her in math...
The Friday before junior year, I found myself at Jessica's pool party, clutching a red Solo cup like it was a lifeline. I wasn't exactly popular, but my mom's friend's cousin was J...
The papaya tasted like soap and regret, which pretty much summed up my whole summer. I stood by the snack table at Sarah Chen's pool party, clutching my red Solo cup like it was a ...
I stared at my reflection, fingers tangled in the mess on my head. My hair had never done what I wanted—it was basically a frizz monster with a mind of its own. But today, everythi...
Marcus pulled his dad's old trucker **hat** low over his eyes, the brim shading him from the fluorescent lights of the cafeteria. This was day three of being the new kid at Northwo...
Maya's hair had been the same since third grade—practical brown, always in a ponytail. But today, with the homecoming dance looming, she stood before her mirror contemplating a cha...
My dad wanted me to play **baseball**. Again. Third summer in a row, even though I'd told him approximately fifty times that I hated standing in right field watching dandelions gro...
Chloe's tennis shoes squeaked against the pavement as she rounded the corner near the community center, her breath coming in ragged bursts. Running used to be her thing—until she t...
Everyone called me Bear because I once hugged someone so hard during a group project meltdown that they said I had a bear grip. Was it a sick nickname? Yeah. Was it better than my ...
I'm crouched behind the chain-link fence, basically attempting espionage level: amateur. My mission: observe the popular kids who've claimed the public padel courts every Friday si...