The Fox in the Outfield
Maya's palms were sweating legit rivers as she sat in the bleachers, the mid-June sun baking everything in sight. Beside her, Jordan was going on about the baseball game like his l...
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Maya's palms were sweating legit rivers as she sat in the bleachers, the mid-June sun baking everything in sight. Beside her, Jordan was going on about the baseball game like his l...
Mara stood outside the convention center, its brutalist glass pyramid looming against the bruised purple sky. Three years since she'd last seen Elena, and now they were both attend...
The hat was everything. A beat-up dad cap pulled low, it was Maya's fortress against the world—or at least against Jason noticing the panic in her eyes. She stood at the edge of th...
Lily loved running through the meadow behind her house, her bare feet dancing on the soft grass. Every evening at twilight, she'd race the setting sun, trying to catch the last gol...
Maya felt like a zombie—really, the corporate kind, the ones that shuffled through open-plan offices with dead eyes and empty coffee cups, their humanity extracted in quarterly per...
Maria stood at the edge of the pool, water lapping at her bare feet like a nervous heartbeat. It was 3 AM at the boutique hotel in Tulum, and she'd been running from her life for e...
The orange sat on Mara's desk like a small, defiant sun. Its waxy skin caught the fluorescent light of the twenty-third floor, where she'd spent the last seven years climbing a cor...
Miguel stood on the balcony of his rented condo in Costa Rica, the humidity clinging to him like a second skin. At forty-two, he'd flown here alone, leaving behind his divorce pape...
Maya parked her Honda in the underground garage and sat for a moment, fingers wrapped around the steering wheel like she might need to strangle it. Three years since David left. Tw...
Maya's palm was sweating so hard her iphone almost slipped out of her hand. Again. She gripped it tighter, staring at the screen like it held the secrets to the universe, or at lea...
Lena adjusted her cap, the orange brim too bright against the fading sunset. First day of travel ball tryouts, and already her stomach was doing backflips. The other girls looked s...
Lily loved her backyard. The old swimming pool sat like a giant blue eye, winking at her every morning. But today, something strange floated in the water. It was small and shiny. ...