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Suzy walked with her fellow students to Miss Copoletta's art class. All the other students were fully dressed, except for Jackie who was still buttoning up the blouse she had just retrieved from Miss Carpenter. MS Carpenter, Suzy corrected herself. That mistake was why she was walking through the ...

My name’s Marisol Vega. I’m nineteen, a scholarship student, and yes—I go to class completely naked. Not just at home, not just in the privacy of a dorm room. I wake up, roll out of bed, throw my bookbag over my shoulder, and walk out the door with nothing but skin between me and the world. It turns ...

The morning sun cast long shadows across Briana Webber's bedroom floor as her alarm blared to life. She groaned, slapping at the snooze button with a sleep-heavy hand. Just five more minutes. But the dread pooling in her stomach wouldn't let her drift back to sleep. Monday. Jefferson Junior High ...

The Binding Bet

Chapter 1: Skin and Ink

The first thing you should know about me is that my best friend sold me out for a pair of limited-edition Manolo Blahniks.

Sarah Cartwright and I had been inseparable since we were six years old when she pushed me off the swing set at Wellington Prep's ...

Chapter 2: The Choice

The Cartwright study smelled of leather and lies.

Moonlight sliced through the velvet curtains as Victor's stolen key turned in the antique lock. Inside, the mahogany-paneled walls held portraits of stern-faced Cartwright's past, their painted eyes following us as we moved ...

Skin in the Game

The elevator doors closed behind me, sealing me in a silent, mirrored tomb. My reflection stared back—Denise Holt, nineteen, with a high school diploma still stiff from its casing, now standing in a thrift-store dress and gripping a security badge like a lottery ticket she never ...

The Enchanted Lounger

The bell above Mystic Relics gave a tired jingle as Maeve Dawson shoved through the door, her boots kicking up a small storm of dust from the worn wooden floorboards. The shop smelled like old books, lemon polish, and something faintly metallic—probably the rusting collection ...

Every Girl Has Her Price
A Retelling by Danielle, Inspired by Maria Gonzales’ Original (1999)

Author’s Note

This retelling draws inspiration from the themes first explored in Maria Gonzales’ provocative Every Girl Has Her Price, originally published on the Cronenberg Academy Stories Archive in ...

Chapter 1: The Man in the Suit

My name’s Juana Mitchels. I’m twenty-four, a college dropout clinging to just enough ambition to keep from going under, and armed with enough sarcasm to alienate strangers in under thirty seconds. For the past year, I’ve worked at a place called The Burger Baby—a ...

Introduction

Where do I even begin?

This afternoon unfolded in a way no parent is ever prepared for. It began routinely and predictably until the school called. The vice principal’s tone was grave and carefully controlled as he told me to come immediately. There had been an incident involving my ...