Goldfish at the Top
Maya stared at the cafeteria ceiling—someone had taped a paper pyramid to the fluorescent light, like the whole social hierarchy was literally hanging over our heads. She sighed, p...
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Maya stared at the cafeteria ceiling—someone had taped a paper pyramid to the fluorescent light, like the whole social hierarchy was literally hanging over our heads. She sighed, p...
The **water** in the Miller's backyard **pool** glittered like liquid stars, and somewhere inside me, my anxiety was doing backflips. I didn't do parties. I definitely didn't do po...
Maya's fingers were literally shaking as she adjusted the ring light. In twenty minutes, she'd be going live for the biggest stream of her life. The subscriber goal was within reac...
Maya became the designated cafeteria spy by accident sophomore year, mostly because nobody noticed her sitting alone with her headphones and half-finished geometry homework. She ca...
The carnival lights blurred against my glasses, and I clutched the plastic bag like it contained my soul—which, technically, it kinda did. Inside swam Goldie, my prize goldfish, wo...
Maya's summer was supposed to be lit—two weeks in Hawaii with her cousin Kai's squad, finally escaping her small town's endless cornfields. Instead, she stood frozen at the beach b...
The summer before freshman year, Maya decided she needed a rebrand. Gone was the girl who'd once cried because her goldfish died after three days. She was going to be someone myste...
Maya's bedroom was a battlefield of disaster. An empty orange soda can sat precariously on her nightstand next to three half-used hair products. The bottle of neon orange dye promi...
Zara sat on the edge of her bathtub, staring at the emergency blue hair dye she'd impulse-bought at 2 AM. The first day of sophomore year was in four hours, and her natural curls w...
The bull of tenth grade, Jason Chen, had cornered me by the gym lockers again. His orange basketball jersey practically glowed under the fluorescent lights. Same routine: knock my ...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her towel like a lifeline. The end-of-summer party raged around her—splash fights, laughter, some girl's phone blasting the latest Oli...
Maya's life had become an endless parade of beige. Beige cafeteria food, beige conversations with people she'd known since kindergarten, beige expectations to be the perfect daught...