Magical Realism Novel

Alira yang duduk di depan panggung mulai bingung. "Hah? Gila, apalagi nih, Tio?" Tio menoleh ke Alira dan tersenyum penuh arti. "Lo pikir cuma lo doang yang bisa bikin kejutan, Lan?" Alira cuma bisa ngangkat bahu, dan Tio pun mulai nge-set musik. Kejutan pertama udah bikin semua orang terharu, tapi kejutan kedua ini bakal bikin semua orang ngakak. Lagu dangdut mulai terdengar, dengan irama yang cukup kencang. "Eh, gimana kalau kali ini kita sedikit ganti suasana? Kita, band indie, bakal nyanyi dangdut bareng-bareng!" kata Tio, dan nggak lama, lagu dangdut pun mengalun di speaker besar, Penonton yang awalnya bingung, langsung heboh dan ketawa-ketawa. Tio mulai nyanyi dengan penuh semangat, dan seisi sekolah mulai ikut terkejut. Alira yang awalnya nggak ngerti, mulai tertawa terbahak-bahak. Tio mulai menunjukkan aksi kocaknya.

Hana Sullivan tiba-tiba didepak secara tidak adil dari perusahaannya. Merasa frustrasi, Hana kemudian mabuk-mabukan dan meracau ke pria yang ditemuinya di bar tentang masalahnya. Siapa sangka, pria yang menjadi sasaran curhatnya adalah Mahendra Hastungkoro, seorang direktur rumah sakit tempat adik Hana dirawat! Yang lebih mengejutkan lagi, pria itu tiba-tiba menyodorkan kontrak kerja untuk menjadi istrinya?!

Kesalahan fatal yang dilakukan kakaknya telah menjerat Ayasa dalam pernikahan yang tak pernah dibayangkan, demi menyelamatkan nama baik keluarga dan menghindari masalah yang lebih besar, Ayasa terpaksa menikah dengan Regas Tenggara, sang cassanova dengan beribu skandal di hidupnya.

Devita Arriva tidak menginginkan pernikahan dalam waktu dekat. Namun, gara-gara kecerobohannya mengajak Alby menikah lewat dating app, mau tak mau Devita harus melepaskan keinginannya untuk tidak menikah. Devita yang bar-bar dan Alby si mantan play boy. Kira-kira bagaimana kisah mereka ke depannya, yah?

Konglomerat ini tanpa sengaja ditolong oleh gadis penjual donat. Dia memang sedang mencari calon istri untuk putra tunggalnya. Dia ingin menjadikan gadis itu calon menantunya. Ia harus menelan kekecewaan, gadis itu ternyata ....

After I'm abducted, I call my mother, a policewoman, for help. However, she hangs up on me and stays by my adoptive sister's side. "Go to hell if you're so keen on it!" she snaps. I calmly watch as the abductors pluck my nails and torment me until none of my skin is left unharmed. In my past life, my mother actually came to my rescue. She left my adoptive sister by the roadside, and the latter ended up being violated and murdered. From then on, I became a criminal in my mother's eyes. She received an anonymous text on my adoptive sister's death anniversary. "I bet a good girl like you wouldn't want your mother to know you hired us to abduct you, right?" She thought I orchestrated the abduction because I wanted to vie for her attention. She thought that was the cause of my adoptive sister's death. "I've saved people all my life. I never would've expected my flesh and blood to be such a shameless monster! You should go to hell as atonement for killing Charlene!" She sewed my mouth shut, shattered every bone in my body, and threw my ashes into a junkyard. When I open my eyes again, I find myself back to the day my mother makes her choice.

When my body is engulfed in flames, my firefighter father is watching a new movie with my sister. My mother is baking them a cake. I hear laughter in the living room, and I can smell the caramel popcorn in the kitchen. Today is my family's weekly family day—it's a day for my sister and parents to be with each other. The doorbell rings, and the perpetrator gives me a chance to ask for help. My limbs are bound, and stones fill my mouth. I stand at the door and desperately wait for my parents to open it. They don't get up. Instead, they sit on either side of my sister and hug her. "We promised you we'll only be with you on our family days. No one can disturb us." "What if it's Danica?" Ravenna Sutton, my sister, asks. "Her? She hasn't answered her phone in days—who knows where she's off being wild? I'll think of her as dead if she still doesn't return tomorrow!" Ravenna giggles. Mom feeds her some popcorn, and Dad discusses the movie's plot with her. The perpetrator drags me back upstairs and laughs mockingly in my ear. "Looks like I did something unnecessary. They genuinely don't care about you." Smoke permeates every corner upstairs, and the flames start to lick at my body. Mom and Dad protect Ravenna as they run downstairs. They have no idea their birth daughter is screaming in pain amid the blazing fire.

I'm my brother's walking blood bank. Mom and Dad keep forcing me to go for blood transfusions to the point that I don't even weigh 80 pounds. Later, my brother's kidney fails. Mom and Dad want to gouge mine out to be transplanted into his body. At the peak of my despair, the thief who sneaks in from the ventilation hood secretly carries me out and helps me escape. He says, "I'm here for you. Don't be scared."

I got a security job in an upscale neighborhood.  One day, I got a call from a resident.  “I think there’s been a break-in.”  I rushed to the scene. Instead of an intruder, I was greeted by a beautiful woman in barely anything.  She held me and pleaded, “I’m scared. Can you stay with me?”

I poured my heart and soul into securing a big deal for my wife's law firm. But when I stepped out for a quick coffee break, she fired me on the spot, claiming I'd gone AWOL for too long. "New company rule: ten minutes away from your desk, and you're out. You were gone for ten minutes and five seconds. Now grab your stuff and leave." I sneered and flipped the script, turning over proof of her siphoning funds to buy her intern boy a Maybach to the police. She thought she could burn bridges with me, but this bridge didn't crumble so easily.