Alien Pregnancy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• THEY SAY THAT THE DEVIL IS A CHARMING MAN • Ksatria tidak mengerti kata 'setia' di dalam kamusnya. Baginya, tidak ada hubungan antara lelaki dan perempuan yang akan bertahan selamanya. Hidup hanya sekali, jadi Ksatria memutuskan untuk bersenang-senang dengan banyak perempuan. Bertemu, tidur bersama, lalu berpisah—semudah itu. • SHE IS AN ANGEL WITH A DEVILISH KISS • Di sisi lain, ada Rinai—asisten pribadi sekaligus sahabat Ksatria sejak kecil—yang baru kembali ke kehidupan Ksatria setelah menghilang selama setahun. Sampai kemudian satu ciuman di antara mereka mengubah semuanya, akankah Ksatria mau membuka hatinya untuk Rinai dan merayu Rinai agar menjadi miliknya? Padahal Ksatria tahu, sejak dulu Rinai tidak pernah menganggapnya sebagai lelaki yang akan membuat jantungnya berdebar, hanya karena sebuah ciuman dan malam yang panjang. • ONCE UPON A TIME, AN ANGEL AND A DEVIL FELL IN LOVE •

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 the late stages of her pregnancy, my wife slipped away into the mountains with her childhood sweetheart, seeking some reckless thrill under the open sky. Fate, however, had other plans. She suffered a massive hemorrhage, and the two were rushed to the hospital. As a doctor, I took one glance at her condition and instructed the nurse to prepare for the cremation. In my previous life, I had risked everything to save her. On that very operating table, she and the child inside her perished together. Her childhood sweetheart, overcome with grief and fury, rallied others to accuse me of seeking personal revenge. Their rage was relentless, and they broke my hands. "A butcher like you, without medical ethics, deserves nothing less than eternal damnation!" they shouted, their words burning like brands on my soul. Yet I distinctly remembered—the surgery had been a success. Her vital signs had stabilized. Clinging to hope, I begged my in-laws to conduct an autopsy, to uncover the truth buried beneath the accusations. Instead, they called the police, who swiftly charged me with performing surgery under the influence of alcohol. Stripped of my rights, I was thrown into prison, where suffering became my only companion. Years later, upon release, I stumbled across a sight that tore what was left of my heart to shreds—my wife, alive and well, behind the wheel of a luxury car, accompanied by her childhood sweetheart and their child, living off the fortune I had worked tirelessly to build. Their betrayal didn't end there. Coldly and methodically, they lured me into a trap, casting me into a cement mixer to erase every trace of my existence. When I next opened my eyes, time had rewound itself. I was back on that fateful day, the one when her hemorrhage began.

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

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.