Choices, wins, and losses — getting through high school is kind of like playing a video game.

In this sound-rich, fictional audio story, RadioActive’s Alayna Ly explores the transition from high school to whatever comes next.

Can you level up without breaking down?

Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/fiction-high-school-hustle-the-video-game

This story was inspired by “Call of Dating,” written and produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime in 2015 for the CBC podcast "Wiretap."

RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW's radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing.

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