Optimist

"Why am I naked in your bed?" I gasped. " Well, last night, we had a lot of fun and sins together." "What type of sins?" " That depends on your definition of the word sin," he winked. Last night I think I slept with a handsome stranger and I can't remember. I got over one man by getting under another.

Kulang pa ba? Kung mayroon pa ibuhos na lahat at isang bagsakan na. Daig pa niya ang nasa giyera na sunud - sunod ang mga bombang pasabog. Baka gutay gutay na sa oras na ito ang kanyang buong katawan. Iyong pakiramdam mong masakit pero may mas sasakit pa pala? Ang mga pusong pinanday ng sakit ng nakaraan ngunit handang magpatawad. Anak, kapatid, kaibigan, Magulang. Mga bahagi at pundasyon sa pagkatao ng bawat isa. This is a story of two elite people who came across each other's lives without knowing their past and future together. Both broken-hearted and devastated, one chose to walk away to mend her broken heart while one just wanted to have fun. Ngunit sa natuklasang lihim ng fiancee, will he use Kristel in his vengeance? One mistake leads to another. Where will it lead them? Handa ba si Kristel magpatawad after what she'd been through?

They are BESTFRIENDS. Not childhood best friends. They met when she was 12 and he, 13 and they had stuck close to each other since then. Joan, that was her name and her best friend, King. Now she was 17, he, 18 and it seemed like everything stood against their five year friendship. Joan’s mother’s dislike for King, the long distance from King’s home to Joan’s, their separate schooling and the fact that King was basically non-existent. And then even more bigger obstructions come into play. Koty, the handsome football jock that is unrelentless in his effort to make Joan his; Joan’s unknown father and King, the new feelings he had started developing for his best friend. They have to struggle to keep their best friendship blooming despite all their problems but the tempests are too strong; the storm too overwhelming and then the final test… Who will betray who?...

What happens when Noah Hudson who's a famous chef, a billionaire and handsome, has to babysit Millie Quinn who's clumsy, a college student and cute, who turns out to be his wife after an accidental drunk marriage in Las Vegas?

Clarissa suddenly woke up with a start. Her head hurt… she was crying over what happened to her. She slowly got up, picked up her scattered clothes, and got dressed. She glanced at the man who was the first to take her virginity and quickly left before he could wake up. "I’m not a virgin anymore! Huhuhu… I’m really so stupid!... What’s worse is that I don’t even know the man!" She remembered begging the man to claim her last night… she felt like banging her head against the wall. She wasn’t raped, but she lost her virginity—she gave it away willingly to a man she didn’t know! She was drugged last night! What kind of drug did the man put in her drink?… why did it make her so horny… huhuhu… so embarrassing! She was even the one insisting with the man!

Connor Lopez has experienced slight déjà vu for the first time in his life with someone who's stranger to her--Savannah Greene. Since that one strange night, Connor has been experiencing déjà vu often times than the usual, and it's making him feel like there's something wrong with his mental health. Through Savannah, he learned about the possibility of past lives and parallel universe. On the other hand, Savannah is a student of Multimedia Arts, to which, she keeps on experiencing dreams from someone else's life, and unconsciously painting the face of someone she never really know in the first place.

Elissa doesn't believe in love. She believes that happiness comes from money. Therefore, even though she has become a billionaire, Elissa still works and has no interest in having a relationship with the opposite sex. At first, everything went smoothly until her father forced her to marry a poor man named Edgar. Elissa refused, but her father threatened her; if she didn't marry Edgar, all of her father's wealth would be donated to social services. Can Elissa maintain her belief that love is just a superstition? Or does Edgar's presence make Elissa believe that happiness does not only come from money?

Masa muda Dania yang penuh Haha-Hihi, jauh dari prahara, dan bahagia, harus tergerus dengan drama tak berkesudahannya dengan dosen paling menyebalkan di fakultasnya. Tak tanggung-tanggung Mrs. Jolie bahkan harus jadi dosen pengampu mata kuliah internship program untuk Dania di semester ini. Ibaratnya sudah jatuh tertimpa tangga pula, sudah harus magang, Mrs. Jolie yang super perfect itu malah mewajibkannya melamar magang di perusahaan nomor satu di Melbourne! Mrs. jolie mau buat dia mati muda mungkin? Sampai-sampai di perusahaan dimana ia melamar magang, bukannya menerima ucapan "Selamat, kamu diterima magang disini!", yang ada Dania harus membuka mulut mirip orang aneh, gara-gara si tuan Aiden William Weygandt, Presiden Direkturnya tiba-tiba bilang "Bisa nyanyi? Bisa memasang popok? Kamu tahan banting kan?" Dania seperti sudah ingin berteriak, "Hah, apaaa ini?? Aku mau disuruh ngapain!!?" Author's Instagram account: @ Lilanamisha Designed cover by @Shiraa_sue

Imagine being kidnapped; being held hostage; being threatened with hunger and violence; surviving with unknown people. Imagine finding a connection, finding love in that oh so terrible prison. Imagine being loved by that love. Imagine being lost, torn away from that love; slapped back to the reality of your fate. Imagine being tortured; the pain not mostly from your own torture, but from the knowledge that the love was somewhere else, somewhere close but far; also being tortured. Imagine your whole life being questioned, threatened to be a lie. Imagine that love being questioned. Imagine being alone. Imagine Love In Bondage.

Tunnels deconstructs the individual’s Romantic fascination with ‘love’ or the grammaticality of beauty. Ideally, the ‘tunnels’ in the collection are subterranean love poems from the suburban imaginary. These seemingly syntactic tunnels travel through one’s literary imagination or heterotopic dreamscapes, and while αγάπη (Greek for ‘love’) inspires these rhizomic tunnels to navigate the abysmal ‘meta-spectacle’ of gesture, language or moment of poemness, the mind like the many-colored jeepneys of Manila, where driving past roast goose restaurants in Shek Kip Mei or spotting stilt houses in Kampong Kleang, attempt to explore the transgeneric textualities of the everyday, alongside the unstructurality of time and space, the littoral and the liminal.