The Summer of Second Chances
Maya's notification ping echoed through her bedroom like a judgment. Her iPhone screen glowed with rejection—again. Three group chat messages floated, unread, while she sat crossed...
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Maya's notification ping echoed through her bedroom like a judgment. Her iPhone screen glowed with rejection—again. Three group chat messages floated, unread, while she sat crossed...
Maya adjusted the fedora she'd thrifted that morning, hoping it made her look mysterious instead of just trying too hard. This was her first high school party since transferring to...
Margaret stood in her grandson's room, watching twelve-year-old Tyler sleep. Beside him lay Bear—the same teddy bear her father had won at a carnival in 1952, the one her son had c...
Evelyn sat at her kitchen table, the morning sun warming her spotted hands. Her granddaughter Maya tapped at her iPhone, thumbs flying across glass like the hummingbirds that visit...
The vitamin C bottle sat on her nightstand, mocking her. Thirty years of corporate wellness programs, and she'd still managed to contract the same cancer that took her mother. Elen...
Lily lived in a house where the palm trees danced outside her window every night. Their long leaves swished and swayed, as if whispering secrets to the moon. One evening, Lily not...
My phone screen glowed in the darkness of my bedroom, the notification from Maya making my stomach do that nervous flutter thing it always did. "u coming 2 jason's party???" I'd b...
The summer I turned fifteen, I developed two problems: a crush on Liam Martinez and a serious case of sideline syndrome. Liam was everything I wasn't - varsity baseball star, effo...
Maya pressed her face against the cooled window, spying on the new neighbor's bedroom as the light flickered on. Three houses down, visible if she angled herself just right past th...
Lily loved playing baseball in her backyard. Every afternoon, she'd practice pitching against the old oak tree. But one day, when her baseball rolled into the mysterious shed behin...
Lily loved the old pond behind her house. Every summer afternoon, she went swimming in its cool, blue water, imagining it was a magical kingdom beneath the surface. One day, while...
Nick stood at home plate, the bat feeling heavy in his hands. Thirty-eight years old, and he'd become what his ex-wife called him—a zombie. Not the flesh-eating kind, but the moder...