Puisi Angkatan 45

Intan yang sedang melaksanakan koas di rumah sakit Harapan Keluarga begitu benci pada konsulenny—Zein yang sangat galak dan selalu memarahinya jika melakukan kesalahan, sialnya ternyata mereka telah dijodohkan dan harus menikah. “Saya harap Prof bisa membatalkan perjodohan ini!” pinta Intan pada Zein yang sedang sibuk dengan laptopnya. “Siapa kamu, berani menyuruh saya? Jika memang kamu tidak menginginkan perjodohan ini, silakan kamu sendiri yang membatalkannya!” sahut Zein, dingin. Intan mengerutkan keningnya. “Oh, jadi Anda memang ingin menikah dengan saya?” tuduhnya. Zein menyeringai dan mengalihkan pandangannya ke arah Intan. “Bagi saya pernikahan itu tidak penting. Saya menerima perjodohan ini hanya karena menghargai orang tua. Jika kamu bisa membatalkannya, silakan! Tapi maaf, saya tidak ada waktu untuk membahas hal remeh itu,” ucap Zein. Kemudian ia beranjak dan meninggalkan Intan. Sikap Zein yang seperti itu membuat Intan semakin benci padanya. Terlebih ketika ia dikirim ke perbatasan untuk magang. Namun, saat sedang magang di perbatasan, Intan bertemu dengan Fabian－seorang komandan angkatan darat yang sedang menjaga perbatasan tersebut. Gejolak dimulai ketika Intan harus memilih diantara Zein yang pernah ia benci atau Fabian yang selalu mencuri perhatiannya. Cover By: Leonidas Design

**Perfect Blind** *She pretended to be her blind twin. Then she watched her brother-in-law die. The killer tested her—held the bloody head five inches from her face. She didn't blink.* **But what he didn't know? She's not just pretending. She's hunting him too.** --- Jiang Yan has spent three months learning to be her blind twin sister: the walk, the voice, the empty stare. She breaks into Lin's apartment seeking a diary—evidence of a murder Yan committed ten years ago. Instead, she finds a body. A killer who knows sign language. And a "dead man" who won't stop breathing. Trapped in a locked room with two strangers and one lie, Yan must play the perfect blind woman while uncovering the truth: her sister isn't blind, her father isn't dead, and the murder she confessed to never happened. **In this family, everyone wears a mask. The only way out is to see through them all.** --- **Perfect for fans of:** - *The Silent Patient* (unreliable narrator) - *Gone Girl* (toxic sisterhood) - *Behind Her Eyes* (identity games) **Tags:** #PsychologicalThriller #TwistedFamily #BlindPOV #ShortRead #DarkSecrets --- **Word count:** 10,000 words | **Chapters:** 10 | **Reading time:** 45 minutes *Every chapter ends with a twist. The final page changes everything

When Ethan Reed shoves divorce papers across the anniversary dinner Mia Thompson spent hours preparing, he believes he's trading up — swapping his quiet schoolteacher wife for her glamorous best friend and the "power couple" image his investors demand. What he doesn't know: the woman he's throwing away funded his entire empire with her dead parents' life insurance money — and still owns 45% of the company he just sold for $25 million. For six years, Mia paid his loans, wrote his pitch decks, and worked two jobs while he coded his dreams into reality. She loved him enough to carry his child alone for eight weeks, waiting for the perfect moment to tell him. That moment came in a doorway — divorce papers in one hand, her best friend smirking behind him in a red dress. She signed. She walked out. She collapsed in a hospital parking lot and lost the baby no one knew existed. Some men burn down the wrong house. Some women have to lose everything before they realize they were holding the match the whole time. And some betrayals come with a price tag — exactly $25 million, plus interest.

Sinopsis Diceraikan di malam pertama serta dipermalukan sebagai wanita yang tidak sempurna, membuat Anjani terluka sedalam-dalamnya. Juragan Supeno–Lelaki 45 tahun yang menjadikannya istri ke-dua sebagai penebus hutang pamannya itu mengumbar aibnya di depan khalayak ramai. Ia menyatakan Anjani cacat sehingga tidak bisa melayaninya sebagai seorang istri. Gadis kalem yang merasa terinjak-injak harga dirinya itu merasa perlu membuktikan pada semua orang bahwa dia bukan wanita yang lemah, yang bisa diremehkan hanya karena tidak memiliki harta benda. Berangkat dari rasa sakit di hatinya, Anjani bertekad untuk menyusun jalan hidupnya, mencari pekerjaan untuk membuktikan pada semua orang bahwa ia tak pantas diremehkan. Perjalanan hidup yang pelik membawanya kepada sebuah pekerjaan yang mempertemukannya dengan Ahmad–seorang dr. Sp.OG. Apa yang terjadi selanjutnya? Bagaimana kelanjutan nasib Anjani? Bagaimana rencana yang Anjani susun untuk membalaskan sakit hatinya? Baca juga karya Pena_Zahra yang lain : - Setipis Benang Sutera (Tamat) - Cinta Satu Malam - Pesona Om Bujang Lapuk ( TAMAT)

Alya Pramesti hanyalah seorang gadis desa berusia 19 tahun, yang datang ke kota dengan mimpi sederhana: melanjutkan kuliah, membanggakan ibunya, dan menulis puisi tentang kehidupan. Hidupnya di desa penuh kesucian—senja, doa, dan ladang padi yang menguning. Namun kota ternyata bukan panggung keindahan, melainkan labirin yang keras dan kejam. Biaya kuliah yang menunggak, kos yang hampir jatuh tempo, dan kabar bahwa ibunya jatuh sakit membuat Alya terdesak. Semua lamaran pekerjaan ditolak karena dianggap tak berpengalaman, hingga akhirnya ia berada di persimpangan jalan: menyerah pada mimpinya, atau mengorbankan sesuatu yang paling berharga—kesucian yang ia jaga sejak kecil. Dengan hati hancur, Alya memilih jalan yang tak pernah ia bayangkan: ia rela melepaskan keperawanannya demi bertahan hidup. Malam itu mengubah dirinya selamanya—antara rasa bersalah, kehilangan, dan kenyataan pahit bahwa kota bisa merenggut apa saja, bahkan yang paling suci. Di tengah luka itu, hadir Aditya Mahendra—seorang pria tampan dari kampus, dingin namun romantis, yang mampu membuat Alya kembali merasakan getar cinta. Namun cinta bukanlah pelarian, sebab rahasia kelam masa lalu Alya membayanginya setiap saat.

Aku, Sonia, seorang wanita berusia 23 tahun, terjebak dalam masalah keuangan yang parah akibat hutang pengobatan anakku yang mengidap Thalassemia dan harus menjalani perawatan medis yang sangat mahal dan berkelanjutan. Hidupku yang penuh kesulitan berubah drastis ketika aku bekerja dengan Mr. Wei, seorang CEO sukses berusia 45 tahun. Di tengah kemelut keuangan dan tekanan emosional, aku menemukan pelarian dalam pelukan Mr. Wei. Kehangatan dan dukungan yang dia berikan membuatku merasa dihargai dan dicintai, sesuatu yang telah lama hilang dalam pernikahanku. Namun, kebahagiaan kami tidak lepas dari konflik; suamiku mulai curiga dan berbagai rintangan muncul, menguji keteguhan hati kami. Cerita ini menggambarkan dinamika cinta yang penuh gairah dan sakit hati, pengkhianatan yang menyakitkan, serta pencarian jati diri dan pengampunan. Dengan latar belakang kehidupan kami yang kontras, aku dan Mr. Wei harus menghadapi pilihan-pilihan sulit dan mempertanyakan nilai-nilai yang kami anut. Akankah cinta kami mampu mengatasi semua rintangan? atau akankah kami terperangkap dalam lingkaran drama dan penderitaan?

I donated 45 million to the city's best kindergarten, but my daughter failed the enrollment interview. She was a polymath. Furious, I demanded an explanation from admissions. She hurled an assessment file at my face. "Your daughter's brilliant, but you're the exact opposite! You're dead last among the parents!" She continued, "The others have tech domes! You're nothing but a regular Ivy League graduate! Your degree's worth about as much as toilet paper!" The other teachers laughed as well. "If we admit her daughter, it's going to look bad on the other kids. She can't take that responsibility." "Yeah, I can't believe she's demanding an explanation from Ms. Johnson. Her husband is the kindergarten's biggest stakeholder. He can make sure her daughter has nowhere to go." The admission teacher shoved me away. With disdain in her eyes, she said, "Out of my sight if you know what's good for you. My husband is picking me up in his Rolls-Royce. His car plate alone is worth more than your life! It's lucky 777! Only one in Georgeport!" Three sevens? That was my husband's car. I laughed mirthlessly and texted my husband. "I had no idea you had another wife behind me."

Caroline Everett, a 45 year-old woman, escapes a 21 year toxic marriage to Ethan Blackwood, a controlling and abusive man. Forced to leave her first love, Williams, and marry Ethan due to family pressures, Caroline’s life was forever altered. Decades of emotional torment followed, but she eventually found the strength to break free. In search of peace, she rents an apartment from Harrison Reed. However, peace proves elusive when she finds herself drawn to Harrison’s younger son, Bryce, a 29 year-old man whose presence awakens something she thought she had lost forever. As their secret affair intensifies, Caroline must navigate the emotional complexity of their relationship while facing judgment and resistance from her estranged children, Liam and Sydney. Meanwhile, the threat of Ethan’s potential discovery looms large, casting a dangerous shadow over her newfound freedom. Amidst the rising tension, Caroline is also forced to confront the painful truth about her past. Will she uncover the devastating role her own parents played in her years of suffering? Or will she fall into the carefully laid traps of Samantha, her once trusted best friend, whose betrayal runs deeper than she ever imagined? In a world filled with secrets, lies, and buried pain, Caroline must decide if love is enough to heal or if some scars are meant to last forever.

Raymond (Ray), 45 tahun berubah menjadi pria yang dingin dan kasar, setelah pengkhianatan yang dilakukan oleh Istri dan partner bisnisnya. Yang membuat ia jatuh dalam keterpurukan dan usahanya menjadi bangkrut. Di saat usahanya sudah mulai sukses kembali, asisten rumah tangga Ray datang membawa Putrinya yang cantik dan muda untuk menjadi pelayan di rumahnya., yang tanpa diketahui Ray pernah mejadi teman tidur satu malamnya. Pengkhianatan yang pernah dilakukan oleh mantan Istrinya membuat Ray menaruh curiga dan bersikap kasar kepada Anna, pelayan baru di rumahnya. Diam-diam, Anna menyukai Ray, karena ia merasa di balik sikap kasarnya Ray memiliki hati yang baik dan penuh cinta. Anna bertekad untuk mengembalikan itu semua dari Ray. Kesalhpahaman terjadi, ketika Anna yang hampir menyerah dengan sifat kasar Ray mengembalikan cincin pria itu, yang tertinggal, setelah percintaan panas mereka. Ray curiga, kalau Anna memanfaatkan dirinya demi mendapatkan hartanya. Ray menyangkal perasaannya yang lambat laun jatuh hati kepada Anna, selain karena usia mereka yang terpaut jauh. Juga rasa sakit dan tidak percaya kepada wanita begitu membekas di hati Ray. Kegigihan dan rasa cinta Anna yang besar lambat laun mampu mengubah sikap Ray. Cinta keduanya pun akhirnya bersatu dalam pernikahan yang berbahagia.

"Why is a young girl like you destroying her kidneys and liver?", I heard that deep husky voice behind my ear and I froze on the seat. He was forbiddenly inches away from me and his breath was against the back of my neck. Who was he? Whoever he was. He had the guts and I wasn’t ready to tolerate nonsense. "You....." , My mouth fall open the moment I turned to look at the atranger who was behind my back. As unbelievable as it was, he was fucking hot. Just a glimpse of his dirty blonde spiky hair , a nice chiseled jawline , pink lips and eyes that had a mixture of dark blue and light grey made my mouth fall more open. Honestly l had never seen such eyes. l felt mesmerized , they were damn beautiful. He didn't look young , he was something like 45 to 50 but good lord he was so hot. Realizing that I was checking him out, a smirk appeared on his face. "Is there something a young beautiful girl like you, wants to forget so badly?." He whispered and I shuttered as I leaned back into his chest. Yes It was there. I want to let go of my past. But I didn't reply him. "I can let you......", "Go on, make me forget him" , l cut him off short in mid sentence. I didn't know what was wrong with me. Yes I was drunk. But just one night with a stranger.... in fact an experienced old man. It is not wrong. Is it?!