Swimming Upstream
Maya stared at the plastic bottle of vitamin supplements on her locker shelf. Her mom had bought them, convinced that Maya's swimming times would improve if she just took enough of...
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Maya stared at the plastic bottle of vitamin supplements on her locker shelf. Her mom had bought them, convinced that Maya's swimming times would improve if she just took enough of...
Maya's phone buzzed with an incoming mission. Okay, not a REAL mission—she was just helping her cousin Jamie figure out whether their crush, Tyler, was single. This was technically...
Maya's phone buzzed in her pocket as she stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her iPhone like a lifeline. The backyard party was already in full swing—kids from school she bare...
Leo stood behind the folding table, staring at the **papaya** halves like they were alien artifacts. His uncle's farm stand in rural Ohio was approximately the opposite of everythi...
I stared at myself in the bathroom mirror, clutching the box of hair dye like it was a bomb. "Sunset Orange," the label promised, but my mom would call it a one-way ticket to Groun...
Kai's orange hat sat on his desk like radioactive waste. For three weeks it had been there, ever since his mom bought it from a thrift store because 'it matches your energy, sweeti...
Maya's bathroom mirror reflected a disaster zone. Her hair, usually tamed by expensive products, had decided to stage a rebellion. Perfect timing for Jackson's party—the social eve...
The air smelled like cheap popcorn and desperation. I stood behind the bleachers, fingers fidgeting with the hem of my flannel, trying to look like I belonged. Like I wasn't the ne...
My palm was literally sweating as I stood outside Jordan's house, clutching my phone like it was a lifeline. Friday night. The big party. The one everyone would be talking about on...
Maya's hair had always been her armor—long, dark, and perfect—or at least that's what everyone told her. "Your hair is so gorgeous," girls at school would say, like it was the only...
Maya transferred to Lincoln High junior year, which everyone knows is social suicide. The school had this invisible pyramid—cheerleaders at the apex, then the sports teams, then th...
Maya clutched her iphone like a lifeline, thumb hovering over Instagram as her bestie Chloe dragged her toward the community pool. The annual end-of-summer bash. Every popular kid ...