Taste of Courage
Maya's palms were sweating so much she could practically irrigate a small garden. This was stupid. She was stupid. Why had she agreed to come to Tyler's pool party again? Oh right,...
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Maya's palms were sweating so much she could practically irrigate a small garden. This was stupid. She was stupid. Why had she agreed to come to Tyler's pool party again? Oh right,...
The vintage jacket had been calling to me from the thrift store rack for weeks—a fuzzy orange collar shaped like a fox's face, weird and perfect and absolutely not something I'd no...
Marcus was running—literally and figuratively. Cross country practice had ended twenty minutes ago, but he kept going, lungs burning, Nikes slamming against the trail behind the hi...
Maya's hands wouldn't stop shaking. She stared at her reflection in the dusty bathroom mirror of Riverside High, her normally waist-length waves hacked into something resembling a ...
Maya stared at the cafeteria food pyramid display like it held the secrets to surviving freshman year. Actually, it kinda did — if you counted the social pyramid looming over table...
I felt like a zombie all week. Third period math with Mr. Henderson will do that to you—especially when your crush sits two rows ahead and you haven't worked up the nerve to say he...
Maya tugged her bucket hat lower, cursing herself for accepting Sierra's party invite. The most popular girl in sophomore year had somehow noticed her existence, and now Maya was s...
Maya's hair had been blue for exactly three weeks before her mom found out and threatened to dye it back to "natural brown." Now she sat in the passenger seat of her best friend Ch...
Maya's orange hair had always been her entire personality - at least, that's what everyone at school said. 'Carrot Top,' 'Traffic Cone,' 'Hey, Minecraft villager!' Like she hadn't ...
Maya's palms were sweating so much she worried her phone would slip right out of her hand and shatter on the pavement. This was it—her first house party without parental supervisio...
The country club hummed with summer privilege, and Maya felt like a fraud in her borrowed tennis skirt. She'd begged her mom for the membership—something about "networking opportun...
The orange hoodie was supposed to be my armor. Freshman year, first real party, and I was already spiraling. Standing behind Maya, my hands shoved deep in the pockets, feeling like...