YA fiction voice: Josie

YA fiction voice, candid, quick, and heart-on-sleeve

Prompt: A fresh, expressive teenage female voice that reads YA fiction from the inside out. Her bright mid-register runs quick and candid, tumbling through inner monologue with eye-rolls, nervous flutters, and sudden swells of feeling you can hear arriving before she can stop them. Sarcasm and sincerity trade places mid-sentence. The delivery feels like a diary read aloud by its owner—immediate, a little messy, and achingly honest.

Script: Here's the thing about being the new kid. Everyone stares, but nobody looks. So when Marcus Reyes actually looked, like actually saw me, I did the only reasonable thing. I panicked, said "you too", and walked into the janitor's closet. Nailed it.