Goldfish Funeral in the Bathroom
The bathroom mirror showed someone I barely recognized—blue-black **hair**, two nose piercings, and eyes that looked dead. **Zombie** mode: activated. That's what Mia called it, an...
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The bathroom mirror showed someone I barely recognized—blue-black **hair**, two nose piercings, and eyes that looked dead. **Zombie** mode: activated. That's what Mia called it, an...
Maya's legs burned, her breath coming in ragged gasps as she rounded the track for the third lap. Coach Miller's voice echoed in her head: "Faster, Chen! You've got state qualifier...
Chloe's fingers hovered over her iPhone screen, watching Maya's Instagram story for the third time that morning. Maya was everything Chloe wasn't: confident, glowy, seemingly perfe...
The first time I stepped onto the padel court, my stomach did that thing where it feels like you've swallowed an entire bucket of butterflies. I'd spent the whole summer reinventin...
I'd spent forty-five minutes on my hair that morning, trying to make it look like I hadn't spent forty-five minutes on my hair. The kinda-messy-but-still-cute vibe that Taylor at s...
The pool party of the year. The one everyone would be talking about on Monday. And I was standing at the edge in my denim shorts while everyone else was already in the water, laugh...
The lightning flashed outside my bedroom window, illuminating the one thing in my life that made sense: Barnaby, my goldfish, swimming lazy circles in his bowl. He'd been alive sin...
Maya's hair was supposed to be a subtle caramel balayage. Instead, she'd emerged from her bathroom looking like a zebra with commitment issues. The streaks were jagged. The orange ...
The papaya sat on the kitchen counter like a radioactive alien egg, its mottled orange skin glowing under fluorescent lights. "You're not backing out," Jordan said, scrolling thr...
Maya's phone pinged with the address. Another summer pool party at Jasmine's house. The social **cable** that connected their friend group had been fraying since freshman year ende...
Maya stood behind the backstop, iPhone raised like a shield between herself and the world. The baseball field stretched before her—green grass, brown dirt, and the social pyramid s...
The backward snap of my hat brim was my armor. Freshman year at Jefferson High, and I was still figuring out if I was skater boy, theater kid, or just someone who existed in the aw...