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Katie Neal

Stories

    Overture

    You were born and raised in Queens, New York. You grew up in a small apartment above a bakery, that your parents owned, where the smell of fresh bread drifted through the windows every morning. Queens was all you’d ever known—the crowded sidewalks, corner stores, food trucks, street performers, and the constant hum of the city. You lived with your two moms, Elena and Sofia. Elena was practical and organized. She always had a plan, always knew where the extra batteries were, and somehow managed to solve every problem that came her way. Sofia was more spontaneous. She loved old records, painted landscapes on weekends, and believed that creativity was just as important as good grades.You inherited a little bit of both of them. You are curious, imaginative, and constantly carrying around a book, a sketchbook, or a pair of headphones.

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    The Midnight Collective

    The summer before junior year, seven friends from a sleepy coastal town stumbled into something they were never meant to find. It started with a meteor shower. Luna Starling convinced everyone to sneak out after midnight to watch it from an abandoned lighthouse overlooking the ocean. “Come on,” Luna had said, practically vibrating with excitement. “It’s the biggest meteor shower in like, fifty years. If we don’t go, the universe will be offended.” Nova rolled her eyes. “The universe can text me.” But she came anyway. So did everyone else At 2:22 AM—a fact Luna would never stop mentioning—a blazing silver object tore across the sky and crashed into the cliffs beneath the lighthouse.

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    Paradox

    Y/n grew up in Harlem, New York City. Her mom, Maria, was elementary english teacher, a woman who loved stories, and taught Y/n to question everything. Her dad, Atticus was an electrical engineer who taught her how to build things instead of just dreaming about them. By age eight, Y/n was taking apart appliances just to see how they worked. By ten, she was building her own robots. By twelve, she’d accidentally gotten herself banned from the school computer network for pointing out security flaws. Twice. At fourteen, she captained her high school’s robotics team and led them to a national championship. At fifteen, colleges started fighting over her. At sixteen, she accepted an offer from Columbia University and became one of the youngest engineering students in the school’s history. Most students saw her as intimidating. Professors saw her as a future genius. Y/n saw herself as someone with way too much homework. She built a robot with a super inelegant AI named FACTS (Fully Autonomous Cognitive Truth System). Which is unofficially called “a tiny metal snitch” FACTS is a robot Y/n built when she was thirteen. He originally existed to help her organize homework assignments. Now he’s become her closest companion.

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    Icebound

    She wasn’t just an Olympic gold medalist. She was the youngest person ever to win Olympic gold in women’s singles figure skating, breaking a record that had stood for decades. The world compared her to champions like Tara Lipinski, who won Olympic gold at age fifteen. Y/n hated being called a legend. Legends weren’t expected to finish homework. Legends didn’t have to listen to reporters ask the same questions every day. “How does it feel to make history?” “What’s next?” “Do you ever get nervous?” The answer to that last one was always yes. Because nobody knew her secret. Not even Y/n herself.

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    Little Widow

    Yelena was surprised when Natasha’s burner phone buzzed with the specific, three-beep code that meant their little sister was alive.

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