The Day My Screen Died
My iPhone was my life. Pathetic, but true. It lived in my hand like an extra appendage, its glowing screen the first thing I saw when I woke up, the last thing I saw before sleep. ...
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My iPhone was my life. Pathetic, but true. It lived in my hand like an extra appendage, its glowing screen the first thing I saw when I woke up, the last thing I saw before sleep. ...
The pool shimmered like liquid turquoise under the August sun, and Maya wanted to be anywhere but here. She tugged self-consciously at her orange bathing suit straps, wondering why...
The Friday night pool party at Jessica's house was basically social suicide if you weren't invited. Which I was, technically, but that didn't stop my stomach from doing backflips a...
The papaya sat on the cafeteria table like a radioactive alien egg, and honestly, I should've known better than to try it during lunch rush. "Dude, you're not actually gonna eat t...
The papaya sat on the kitchen counter like an alien spacecraft, all mottled orange-green and smelling weirdly sweet. My mom's new 'health kick' phase. "Try it, Leo," she said, sli...
I'd been playing spy for three weeks before anyone noticed. The thing is, I wasn't actually spying on anyone — I was just existing in Northwood High's social blind spot. You know, ...
Leo's summer was supposed to be about transformation. Specifically, the kind that happened when you spent weeks at your uncle's cabin with zero cell service and somehow emerged as ...
The first day of freshman year, Maya discovered that social hierarchies were like baseball — everyone knew the rules except her. The popular kids sat in the outfield (back row), th...
Maya stood at the bottom of the freshman social pyramid, clutching her tray of questionable cafeteria spinach. Three weeks into high school and she already felt like a zombie—shuff...
The **water** in Chloe's backyard pool shimmered like liquid diamond, mocking me from across the patio. I wasn't supposed to be at Jake Miller's party—I wasn't cool enough, wasn't ...
Maya's cat Pancakes was supposed to be her emotional support animal during the worst week of seventh grade. Instead, the orange tabby had just knocked over her ancient Egypt projec...
The vitamin D gummies mocked me from the kitchen counter, the one my mom insisted would fix my 'pasty gamer complexion.' I grabbed them anyway, shoving three in my mouth as I heade...