Storm Season
Maya's iphone burned in her pocket like a secret she wasn't ready to tell. Outside, the bonfire painted everyone's faces in flickering gold. Maya stood near the palm trees that ma...
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Maya's iphone burned in her pocket like a secret she wasn't ready to tell. Outside, the bonfire painted everyone's faces in flickering gold. Maya stood near the palm trees that ma...
The chlorine smell still clung to my skin as I trudged through the empty hallway, feeling like a straight-up zombie from another planet. 4:30 AM practice would do that to you. My c...
The padel court at Briarwood Academy smelled like privilege and expensive rubber. Maya adjusted her grip on the borrowed racquet, her palms sweating against the handle. "You comi...
Chloe's first day as a pool attendant wasn't exactly the summer vibe she'd imagined. The community pool smelled like chlorine and broken dreams, and her neon whistle felt like a fa...
Maya tugged at her curls, the humidity turning her normally bouncy hair into something resembling a frizz explosion. The annual summer baseball game against Northside was already h...
The first time I saw the fox—aka Elena, the girl with the wicked grin and eyes that actually sparkled like in those cheesy movies—I was faceplanting on a padel court. Literally. "...
My first week at the country club job, I learned three things: rich people don't apologize, hat hair is a valid crisis, and never accept a dare involving tropical fruit. "You're u...
Maya's golden retriever, Buster, was the worst spy ever. That was the problem when your best friend was a dog who treated squirrels like personal enemies and got distracted by ever...
Maya's palms were sweating. Again. She pressed them against her jeans, leaving two dark patches on the denim. "You're our spy now," Chloe had said that morning, flipping her perfe...
The padel court smelled like heated rubber and desperation. I wiped my sweating palms on my shorts—again—and watched Jake serve. His stupid perfect hair didn't even move. "You're ...
The fairgrounds smelled like fried dough and desperation. Exactly how I felt standing in line for the mechanical bull, wearing my dad's beat-up baseball hat because I'd thought it ...
Marcus stood at the edge of the cafeteria watching the social pyramid like everyone else did—the popular kids at the top, the weirdos at the bottom, and everyone else stacked in be...