Alien Pregnancy

After eight years of marriage, I finally get pregnant with Claude Frey's child. It's my sixth round of IVF, and my last chance. The doctor says I can't put my body through it again. I'm overjoyed, ready to share the good news with him. But a week before our anniversary, I received an anonymous photo in the mail. In it, he was bending down to kiss another woman's pregnant belly. That woman is his childhood sweetheart, the one his family watched grow up. She's gentle and well-mannered, and the kind of daughter-in-law every parent dreams of. The funniest part is that his entire family knows about her pregnancy, except me. I'm just the punchline in their joke. It turns out that the marriage I've been holding together despite all my wounds is nothing but a carefully crafted lie. Fine. I don't want Claude anymore, and I'll never let my child be born into a world built on lies. I book my ticket to leave on our eighth anniversary. It's also the very day he's supposed to take me to see the sea of roses. Before we got married, he promised me a sea of flowers all my own. But instead, I find him in front of the rose garden, kissing his pregnant childhood sweetheart. After I leave, he starts searching for me everywhere. "Don't go, please?" he begs. "I was wrong. Don't leave." He finally remembers the promise he'd made to me and plants the most beautiful roses in the world in that garden. But I don't need it anymore.

June was devastated after knowing about July's death until she discovered a familiar mark on his dead body. - - - Alien, UFOs, extraterrestrial beings -- those are the things that Juniper Gallego and Julius Lysander Ignacio love to talk about when they were still kids, but when June's family moved out, they barely communicate through letters. Until one day, July's death shocked everyone including June. She hurriedly go back to their old town only to discover a familiar mark on July's corpse —the mark they once feared when they were littles.

Vina adalah wanita desa yang mempunyai kelebihan, yaitu indera keenam dan menemukan jodoh dengan lelaki seberang. Setelah menikah mereka pergi ke daerah seberang. Mereka merantau disana. Di perantauan mereka selalu mendapat teror dari mahluk-mahluk ghaib. Teror-teror itu semakin gencar di kala Vina mengandung Anak mereka. Apa mereka sanggup untuk menghadapi teror-teror itu? Temukan jawabannya hanya di sini.

Di sebuah desa yang tenang namun menyimpan banyak rahasia, berdirilah sebuah warung makan sederhana bernama Warung Bu Rini. Tak ada yang istimewa dari tempat itu—kecuali satu hal: warung itu tak pernah sepi pembeli, bahkan di hari-hari paling sunyi sekalipun. Orang-orang hanya bisa menebak-nebak, hingga suatu malam, seorang gadis muda bernama Diah datang bekerja di sana. Sejak hari pertamanya, ia sudah merasa ada sesuatu yang tidak beres. Bau anyir menyengat muncul setiap kali Bu Rini menutup warung. Dari dapur belakang, ia sering mendengar suara bisikan yang memanggil namanya dengan lembut… lalu berubah menjadi tawa mengerikan. Sampai akhirnya Diah menemukan selembar kain lusuh di dalam toples kaca yang disembunyikan di bawah meja altar kecil. Kain itu basah oleh darah yang tak kering, dan setiap kali disentuh, tubuh Diah gemetar ketakutan. Sejak malam itu, mimpi-mimpi buruk mulai datang. Bayangan perempuan berambut panjang dengan kain merah menutupi wajahnya selalu mengikuti ke mana pun Diah pergi. Dan satu demi satu, orang di sekitar warung mulai mati dengan cara yang mengerikan. Apakah benar warung itu mendapat keberkahan dari “penglaris”? Atau sebenarnya, ada perjanjian lama yang menuntut darah sebagai bayaran? “Kain Penglaris” adalah kisah tentang keserakahan, kutukan, dan dosa yang diwariskan dari satu generasi ke generasi lain—karena tidak ada rezeki yang datang tanpa harga.

Keadaan kota yang diselubungi oleh wilayah-wilayah kumuh menjadi tidak aman, apalagi dengan adanya internet yang membuat berita-berita tak masuk akal mudah merebak. Makhluk aneh muncul, lalu anak-anak hilang di hutan, juga keadaan kota yang mendadak sepi. Apakah entitas yang baru saja datang itu lebih dari sekadar sihir?

In our galaxy, there are at least twenty billion Earth-like planets able to sustain life. My name is Skye. I am eighteen years old. Our astronautic scientists discovered a planet within our galaxy with human life similar to ours. By probing this planet’s satellite systems, they have learnt that wars have wracked this world over many millennia, where various zealots strive for dominance. Before setting out on a twenty-year expedition to visit this planet, our group has spent a year being educated in the various languages of this alien world and acquiring the skills to survive in any hostile environment we may find ourselves in. OUR DESTINATION IS EARTH. SKYE is the first book in a trilogy. It is a coming-of-age adventure of Skye, a young alien girl, and her fight to survive in a post-apocalyptic world governed by fundamentalists. After surviving a meteoroid tsunami, her spaceship crash lands in the Mexican wilderness. One of the survivors, Judah, a gifted physician from a superior technological civilization, is discovered in the desert and taken to Texas. Judah is promoted as the new Messiah by a right-wing extremist known as ‘The Preacher’. The Preacher’s propaganda machine convinces America’s devastated survivors that it was the sins of the world’s population that, as prophesized in the Bible, brought down the wrath of God. Judah is exploited to restore the people’s faith in the divinity of God as decreed by the Preacher’s tyrannical interpretation. The Preacher aims to reverse the emancipation achieved by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and bring about a dictatorship through the reunification of America. Skye must put her trust in a member of the Preacher’s security team to rescue Judah from this new confederacy.

Niat nya ingin menggagalkan rencana tunangan saudaranya yang jahat yang ingin menjebak saudara nya pada hubungan satu malam, nyatanya dia yang terjebak dan ditangkap oleh laki-laki asing dan melakukan proses bayi inseminasi. Gadis itu hamil tanpa pernah berhubungan dengan laki-laki manapun, terpaksa menikah dengan tunangan saudaranya kemudian kabur setelah bercerai karena ketahuan berbohong. Niat hati ingin hidup bebas dan mandiri, tapi siapa sangka dia terpaksa menikah karena keadaan dan ayah bayi nya adalah seorang mafia.

When I went to the hospital for a checkup to see if my fourth IVF attempt had succeeded, I saw Daniel Cooper, who was supposed to be on a business trip. He was carefully supporting a young, beautiful woman as they walked out of the obstetrics and gynecology department. Her belly was unmistakably round, and she looked like she was ready to give birth at any moment. Daniel froze for just a second before stepping in front of her, shielding her from me. He explained, "Abby, the Cooper family needs an heir to carry on the lineage. Once the baby is born, everything will go back to the way it was." I heard the certainty in his words. So I smiled, nodded, and quietly tucked my test results away as he stared at me in surprise. On the day she gave birth, I left the divorce papers on the kitchen table and walked out of his life for good.

Three days after giving birth, my husband leaves me alone at home to care for the baby, saying that he needs to leave on an urgent business trip. Three days later, I've just arrived at the hospital when I see a family photo his childhood sweetheart has shared on her social media. It's captioned, "This was taken during a trip. We're a happy family of three." I'm surprised to see my husband grinning in the photo and comment on it with a question mark. He immediately calls me to reprimand me. "Do you know how hard it is for her as a single mother? She doesn't have a man to care for her. All I did was take a photo with her. Do you have to be so petty?" That evening, his childhood sweetheart shares a photo of some monetary gifts. "He insisted on giving me this after taking the family photo." I know my husband gave that to her to pacify her. This time, however, I'm ready to leave him.

Punya tetangga absurd yang nyebelin banget? Tahan apa enggak, ya? Tenang, kami bakalan tetap bisa berteman, kok. Kita kerjain aja sekalian!