Goldfish Courage
Maya stared into the bathroom mirror at the disaster she'd created. The box had promised "Sunset Copper," but her hair now resembled a traffic cone that had been through a natural ...
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Maya stared into the bathroom mirror at the disaster she'd created. The box had promised "Sunset Copper," but her hair now resembled a traffic cone that had been through a natural ...
Elena pressed her forehead against the cold window of the monitoring station, watching the rain blur the world outside. Three weeks since Marcus had walked out, leaving nothing but...
Margaret sat on her back porch, the morning sun warming her arthritic hands as she brushed a stray white hair from her forehead. At eighty-two, she had earned every silver strand, ...
Every morning at seventy-eight, Martha follows the same ritual. She reaches for her **vitamin** bottle on the windowsill—glucosamine for her knees, vitamin D for her bones—and watc...
Maya's phone buzzed for the twentieth time in three minutes. The group chat was blowing up—everyone making plans for Friday night, tagging each other in memes, doing that thing whe...
Margaret stood at her kitchen window, watching the first frost dust her garden beds. At seventy-eight, she'd learned that patience was the finest virtue—a lesson her grandmother ha...
Maya's mom swore those horse-pill vitamins would make her grow six inches by summer. So far, the only thing growing was her resentment toward every single person in tenth grade who...
Margaret sat in her favorite wingback chair, the one Arthur had brought home forty-seven years ago from a secondhand shop in Dublin. On her lap slept Barnaby, her ginger tomcat who...
In the deepest corner of the attic, where moonlight peeked through dusty windows, lived a small zombie named Zeb. Zeb wasn't like other zombies. With his stitched-on green skin, m...
Lily loved her grandma's old purple hat more than anything in the world. It had floppy sides and a tall crown, and when she wore it, she felt like a queen. But today, the hat sat o...
My palms were sweating so much I could barely grip the bat. Again. "You good, Maya?" Coach Miller yelled from the dugout, looking like he'd rather be anywhere else than watching m...
Maya's **hair** was supposed to be perfect. She'd spent two hours flat-ironing it, and for once, the humidity was actually cooperating. This was it — her chance to finally fit in w...