The Sphinx in the Cable Box
Maya felt like a spy in her own life, invisible and observing from the edges. Freshman year at Northwood High was basically a social experiment she was failing, sitting alone at lu...
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Maya felt like a spy in her own life, invisible and observing from the edges. Freshman year at Northwood High was basically a social experiment she was failing, sitting alone at lu...
Maya's hair smelled like chlorine and regret. She'd spent the entire summer at the community pool, mostly because her mom signed her up for swimming lessons without asking, but als...
Maya's legs burned as she kept running, each stride on the cross country trail feeling heavier than the last. Coach Reynolds said she had potential, but honestly? She mostly just r...
Six a.m. practice. Again. Maya dragged herself to the pool, feeling like a total zombie after three straight days of finals week. Her phone buzzed in her bag — another ignored text...
I was basically drowning, and not just because Marcus—our team's star sprinter and my personal nightmare—kept dunking me at the town pool. This was the summer before junior year, a...
Maya's fingers were trembling as she clutched her iPhone, the cracked screen pressing against her sweating palm. The school hallway stretched before her like an obstacle course, an...
The pool lights glowed green through the water, making everything look underwater even above the surface. I floated on my back, staring up at the stars, pretending I didn't care th...
The swim team locker room smelled like chlorine and cheap body spray, which was basically the official scent of my entire sophomore year. I was tying my goggles when Brock—he of th...
Jordan felt like a total spy, infiltrating enemy territory. Which, technically, she was. Kind of. If you counted senior Chloe Martinez's back-to-school rager as enemy territory and...
Maya's life was basically one long awkward pause until Jason Chen's party, when she accidentally became the school's most mysterious legend. It started with the papaya. Freshman y...
Maya pressed her back against the gym wall, phone hovering just above eye level. Officially, she was waiting for her mom. Unofficially, she was the lowest-ranking spy in the sophom...
Maya's heart pounded as she stared at the puddle on the dock. Her iPhone. In the water. Gone, like, literally gone. "No no no NO," she whispered, her voice cracking. This wasn't j...