Riddles and Rackets
The night felt like a riddle I couldn't solve. I leaned against the fence, watching Liam crush it at **padel** with effortless grace. Me? I'd signed up because my mom thought it w...
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The night felt like a riddle I couldn't solve. I leaned against the fence, watching Liam crush it at **padel** with effortless grace. Me? I'd signed up because my mom thought it w...
The humidity was absolute trash that July night. Maya sprawled on a pool float in her backyard, scrolling through TikToks while her golden retriever, Barnaby, paddled around her li...
I was definitely not a spy. I was just a girl with a very confused Golden Retriever named Cosmos who kept escaping our backyard to follow me to the community pool. Again. "Cosmos,...
The pool party at Tyler's house was supposed to be my chance. Finally. After two months of Instagram creeping and carefully timed locker-room walks, I'd scored an invite. I even bo...
The baseball uniform felt like a costume I hadn't auditioned for. Standing at shortstop, sweat trickling down my spine, I watched another ball sail past me into left field. "Nice h...
Maya's hair had been behaving itself for exactly three weeks before it betrayed her. Three weeks of perfect beach waves that said I'm effortlessly cool, I definitely didn't spend t...
Maya's palms were sweating — actually historic levels of embarrassing — as she stood at the edge of the padel court. "You good?" Jordan asked, spinning his racket like he hadn't a...
The county fair smelled like funnel cake and desperation. Exactly where I didn't want to be on a Friday night, but here I was, standing in front of the mechanical bull while Jordan...
I'd been functioning on zombie mode for three days straight, surviving on energy drinks and pure anxiety about the Winter Formal. My best friend Jen had been hyping it up for weeks...
Maya's palms were sweating as she stood at the edge of Chloe's above-ground pool, clutching a red Solo cup like it was her only lifeline. This was it—her first actual high school p...
The neon orange ball blurred past my ear, missing me by inches. "You're gonna have to do better than that, rook," said Mateo, the self-proclaimed king of our school's padel club. ...
Maya's cat, Barnaby, had more game than she did. The orange tabby strutted around the neighborhood like he owned every sidewalk and garden, while Maya spent her freshman year fadin...