Her Hands, Like Waves
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Last published Sat, Mar 28, 2026
You see, when teenagers do stuff? It's 10x a nightmare. Take a look or ask 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧.
That's exactly what Nica has to go through. Mornings always begin with seagulls in Vista Grande. For Nica Collins, it's always another routine day, the same silence that fills her small apartment. Even outside. She clings to her to the life she had always fitted in, finding comfort in the familiar, the ordered, the quiet.
But when her anxiety claws its way back amid the noise of the world, an unexpected voice breaks through the ring...
... and maybe, so does something "𝘯𝘦𝘸".
But is she saved or worse?
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