Palm Lines in the Chlorine
Marcus hated the **swimming** pool with a passion. At fifteen, the last place he wanted to spend his summer was drowning in chlorine while his friends were at the mall or playing v...
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Marcus hated the **swimming** pool with a passion. At fifteen, the last place he wanted to spend his summer was drowning in chlorine while his friends were at the mall or playing v...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her phone like it might save her from drowning. Behind her, the summer party raged—music thumping, kids laughing, someone cannonballin...
Maya stood at the edge of the padel court, her grip tightening on the rented racket. The blue glass walls reflected her uncertainty right back at her. This was it—first day of tryo...
Maya stared at the social hierarchy chart glowing on her iphone screen, that familiar stomach-drop feeling hitting her like it did every time she opened Instagram. The homecoming c...
The heat radiating off the concrete made everything shimmer like I was seeing it through a fever dream. I adjusted my snapback for the fiftieth time, even though I knew it looked s...
The baseball cap pulled low over my eyes was my armor. Freshman year at Oak Creek High, and I'd already mastered the art of becoming invisible. But invisible wasn't enough anymore—...
I felt like a zombie scrolling through my phone at 3 AM, my eyes burning but sleep nowhere near happening. Junior year was eating me alive, and my brain wouldn't shut up about ever...
The social pyramid at Northwood High was as real as geometry homework, and I was definitely in the basement layer. Until the day I accidentally went viral. My sister dared me to w...
The zombie apocalypse had started, but apparently nobody had told the country club crowd. My dad's new girlfriend had insisted I come to this stupid padel tournament, and I was cur...
The papaya gum lost its flavor three hours ago, but Maya kept chewing anyway. It was better than thinking about how everyone at the pool party seemed to belong here except her. Sh...
The bonfire crackled between us, sending sparks upward like fireflies having a really bad night. I stood there nursing my lukewarm soda, trying to look casual while internally losi...
My sphinx cat Cleo looked like an alien from a planet where everyone forgot how to grow fur. Her wrinkly pink skin and bat ears made normal cats look basic. I stared at her while d...