When the Sky Broke Open
Maya's parents finally left for their anniversary weekend, leaving her with the holy grail: an empty house and the promise of Netflix on the big screen. She'd invited Jordan—the Jo...
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Maya's parents finally left for their anniversary weekend, leaving her with the holy grail: an empty house and the promise of Netflix on the big screen. She'd invited Jordan—the Jo...
The pool was dead. I mean literally empty—just me, Marco, and that one lifeguard who definitely wasn't getting paid enough to watch three awkward sophomores NOT swim. "Bro, just j...
Maya's alarm blared at 4:45 AM, and she basically felt like a zombie already. Two weeks of joining the swim team would do that to you. But this was what it took to sit at the popul...
I stood outside the community center, clutching my mom's old racquet like it might somehow make me invisible. Inside, the thwack-thwack-thwack of padel balls echoed through the doo...
Maya's fingers hovered over her iPhone screen, the blue light casting shadows across her face in her dark bedroom. Another notification from Taylor's party—everyone was there excep...
The vitamin gummies clinked against my teeth—strawberry-flavored lies I'd been selling to sophomores for three weeks. $15 a bottle, labeled "Focus+," total placebo. My side hustle,...
Maya's first week at Northwood High was going about as well as you'd expect — until today's lunch disaster. She'd spent thirteen years being the quiet kid who blended into lockers,...
I was running on three hours of sleep and a venti cold brew, basically functioning at 50 percent zombie capacity. My hair looked like a bird's nest—split ends fraying in every dire...
The papaya incident started it all. I was fifteen, standing at the edge of the neighborhood pool party, clutching my plate like it contained nuclear waste instead of fruit. Everyo...
Leo adjusted his orange hoodie, the one his older sister said made him look like a traffic cone, and ducked behind the vending machine. Being five-foot-nothing at Wilson High had i...
Maya's palms were sweating so much she could practically water-ski on them. She stood against the wall at Jake's house party, clutching a red solo cup like it was her only lifeline...
Marcus stood by the **palm** tree at the edge of Jenny's pool party, nursing a warm soda and feeling like the world's biggest loser. His sister had won that stupid **goldfish** at ...