Chlorine and Confidence
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, toes curled against the concrete. The July heat radiated off the backyard patio, but her stomach was doing backflips. "You coming in or what?" ...
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Maya stood at the edge of the pool, toes curled against the concrete. The July heat radiated off the backyard patio, but her stomach was doing backflips. "You coming in or what?" ...
Maya stood at the edge of the community pool, chlorine stinging her nose. The **swimming** team practiced laps while she clutched her borrowed goggles, feeling like a fraud. Her ol...
Maya's basement was basically a graveyard for dead technology. That's where she found it—the coaxial cable that changed everything. Her brother Jordan, twenty-one and home from co...
The community pool shimmered like liquid turquoise under the July sun, but Maya's stomach felt like it was doing backflips. This was it — the party of the summer, and she was final...
My room had become mission control. For three weeks, I'd been the worst kind of spy — not the cool James Bond type, but the pathetic girl who'd created a fake TikTok account just t...
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The papaya sat on the cafeteria table like a radioactive alien artifact. "Dude, what IS that?" Jason asked, scrunching his face. "It looks like something that died." I sighed. T...
Maya's phone buzzed again. Another text from the group chat: pool party at Jake's, you coming? She stared at the spinach-heavy smoothie her mom had blended for her "summer glow-up...
Maya stared at her iPhone screen, thumb hovering over the post. Her best friend since seventh grade, Jasmine, had posted another selfie—this time holding a suspiciously green smoot...
Maya's palms were sweating. Like, actually sweating, tiny droplets pooling in her hand crevices as she clutched the red solo cup. This was it. Her first high school party. And she ...
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The day I dyed my hair electric blue was the same day my life became a literal car crash—of emotions, anyway. I'd spent sixteen years being Baseball Girl: the shortstop with the pe...