Breaking Surface
The baseball hit me in the forehead with the grace of a freight train. I fell backward onto the carefully manicured lawn of Miller Park, my vision swimming in circles while my so-c...
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The baseball hit me in the forehead with the grace of a freight train. I fell backward onto the carefully manicured lawn of Miller Park, my vision swimming in circles while my so-c...
Leo's lungs burned. Seventeen-all. The synthetic blue court beneath his sneakers felt like the only solid thing in the world. "You got this!" Maya called from the baseline, racket...
Marcus stood at the pool's edge, clutching his iPhone like a lifeline. The screen reflected his own anxious expression – sixteen and somehow still nervous about Rachel's party. His...
The stupid party hat kept sliding over my eyes. I'd only worn it because Maya dared me, and now I was stuck playing mystical fortune teller to a bunch of seniors who'd already had ...
Marcus was the biggest **bull** on the varsity baseball team — six-foot-three, 230 pounds of pure intimidation, with shoulders like a truck and a scowl that could silence a dugout ...
Maya's hair was supposed to be caramel highlights. Instead, she emerged from the salon looking like a striped cheetah. The stylist—some TikTok-famous 'hair artist' with 200k follow...
My life was officially pathetic. I was literally **running** laps around the school track at 7 AM because coach said it would 'build character,' while normal teenagers were sleepin...
My life officially jumped the shark when Carlos Martinez — sophomore king, varsity baseball pitcher, and the reason I learned to breathe quietly in corners — caught me talking to m...
Maya's hands were sweating—like, actually sweating—while she adjusted the HDMI **cable** behind the TV for the third time. The expensive home theater system kept glitching, and wit...
The iPhone screen cracked across Maya's palm as she swiped through Instagram, watching everyone else's summer unfold in glossy filters. Meanwhile, she was stuck working at her pare...
Maya's hands wouldn't stop shaking. padel tryouts. Sophomore year. And literally everyone was watching. "You got this," Chloe whispered, squeezing her shoulder. "You've been pract...
Marcus stood at the edge of the community pool, adjusting the neon orange **hat** that was supposedly part of his "lifeguard aesthetic." The thing was ridiculous — a visor that scr...