Snap It Out

I'm 29 years old, nearly 30 and so far, my sister and Photography have been my life and soul. Ever since I stepped foot in my first darkroom during my Sophomore year I always had a hunch that this would be my true passion. Since I held my first camera. Set up my first tripod, captured my first photo and filmed my first piece. I just knew that this is what I wanted to do. My life has been a complicated mess since I was 10 years old. My life was thrown away by my parents because I was a burden to them, I had a pen pal who I vented my anger out on for years yet he had become a huge part of my life. I haven't had a serious relationship in...well...ever and It's not every day that you find a man wanting to talk to you...granted, this man is the one who spilt his coffee down me the first time we met and from then on he became the Baine of my existence. I live in Texas City, Houston and I love what I do, the freedom it gives me being behind a camera but it also comes with a price when you least expect it. My life was complicated enough but when I vent out on a secret to this man, my feelings towards him become stir crazy and a whirlwind of emotions. One's I didn't want in the first place because 2 weeks before meeting said man...I was applying for a year long fellow ship abroad. A once in a lifetime opportunity to go to one of Spain's most explored and cultured cities - Barcelona.

My younger brother had opened a high-end beauty salon, so I took my mother there for a facial. We picked the most expensive package, but the moment the mask was applied, Mom's face began to burn. When we peeled it off, her entire face was covered in rashes. I called for the director, but she looked impatient. "Oh, that's just a normal detox reaction." I was stunned. "Her face is practically ruined! What products are you even using?" "Ruined?" She flared up like someone had stepped on her tail. "Your mom's skin is just too bad to handle premium nutrients! Once our products are opened, they're non-refundable—got it?" I pointed to the brochure. "It says right here—'gentle and non-irritating, full refund if any adverse reaction occurs.' Is this how Stellan Fallow taught you to run a business?" She crossed her arms and lifted her chin high. "I am the boss! You and your mother look broke as hell—clearly here to mooch a free treatment. Now that it didn't work, you're trying to scam us for money? "Let me tell you something—this set costs 38 thousand, and with my emotional damages and lost wages, that's a total of 100 thousand. If you don't pay up today, I'll have the police take you both in!" A hundred thousand for a product that ruined someone's face? It was no wonder Stellan suddenly wanted to open a salon—it turned out he and his girlfriend were running a scam together! I was about to call Stellan, but before I could, she hit the video dial first. "Bubby, get over here—two broke idiots tried to freeload a treatment and now they're trying to shake us down for money!"

Adrianna knew her first heartbreak at the age of eight- when Ash, her only friend moved away. Adrianna thought he was just a memory until her sister persuades her to go out to a club with her. He was once a sarcastic, stubborn, smart mouth boy. Now he's a killer, who is fresh out of jail, and involved in a gang. He was far from the boy she once knew, but now he's coming home to play.

"Runaway BillionaireWhat happens when two sets of parents decide their thirty-something offspring need to get married? To each other. The problem? Neither one wants wedded bliss, and they don’t even know each other. Kyle Montgomery is happy with his single state and the excitement of running the Montgomery Hotel Corporation. Pepper Thornton is just as happy running the family B&B, the Hibiscus Inn. What started out as a fun ploy suddenly turns into something much more—until reality pokes up its head and nearly destroys it all.Touch of MagicMaddie Woodward is in a pickle. The last person she expects to see when she returns to the family ranch for one last Christmas is her former lover, Zach Brennan. He’s hotter as he ever was, all male and determined to get her naked. She’s just as determined to show him she’s over him—until she ends up in his bed, enjoying the wildest sex of her life. A night of uncontrolled, erotic sex shows her that Zach is far from out of her life. Now if she can just get him to help her convince her sisters not to sell the ranch—or sell it to the two of them.Wet HeatIt was supposed to be a month in a cottage by the lake in Maine. For Peyton Gerard it was time to recover from not one but three disastrous breakups and try to find her muse again. A successful romance novelist needed to believe in romance to write about it believably, and Peyton had lost her faith in it.All About Love is created by Desiree Holt, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author."

While picking up my parcel from the mailroom, I run into Ivan Judd, an underprivileged student from my grade who is working part-time there. While we chat, he finds out that I'd spent 128 thousand dollars during the Black Friday sales. Dumbfounded, Ivan cries, "I've never even seen that kind of money in my entire life! And you're spending it so casually? Did your mom send you to college to study or to blow money like this?" He yanks the parcel out of my hands and physically blocks the exit. "Return it immediately! Kids like you never understand how hard it is for adults to earn money! If you're this wasteful now, what man can afford to marry you in the future?" I can't help but laugh angrily at Ivan's ridiculous attitude. I retort, "What does me spending my mom's money have anything to do with you?" "How does it not?" He looks completely justified when he says, "I'm dating your mom. Every cent you spend counts as our future marital assets!" I am shocked. Isn't Mom a lesbian? Since when did she start liking men?

Si Elaisa ay nagmula sa hindi kilalang pamilya na nagpakasal sa mayamang negosyante. Kung iisipin ay napaka swerte nya dahil hindi nya mararanasan ang hirap ng buhay. Hindi nga ba? Maraming pagsubok ang dinaanan ni Elaisa. Minsan nang nakaranas ng pang-aabuso at may takot sa dugo. Kung iisipin ay nakapahinang babae nya pero hindi 'yun naging balakid para magmahal sya kahit na hindi sya kailan man kinilala ng asawa. Nang sa wakas ay natutunan na ng asawa nya ang mahalin sya ay saka naman dumating ang hindi inaasahan at nakapalaking problema sa buhay nila. Dapat bang sumuko kapag bumitaw na ang isa? Dapat bang iwan sya para lumiga habang wala ka? Istorya ng babae kung paano tinanggap at sinugal ang lahat para sa pag-ibig.

Park Jiyeon dan Kim Jaehwan kuliah kedokteran dan telah menikah secara rahasia di Jerman. Ketika mereka kembali ke Korsel, ayah Jiyeon malah menjodohkan Jaehwan dengan Park Mina, kakaknya. Hanya untuk meluaskan bisnis mereka. Sedangkan di sisi lain, ada Lee Namju, mantan kekasih Mina yang ingin membalas dendam pada keluarga Park karena sakit hati di masa lalu namun malah jatuh cinta pada Jiyeon. Berbagai usaha dilakukan sepasang suami istri itu untuk membatalkan perjodohan. Namun selalu gagal. Akhirnya Jaehwan berusaha membuat Jiyeon hamil agar mereka dapat membatalkan perjodohan itu. Pada malam pertunangan, Jaehwan menunjukkan bukti pernikahan dengan Jiyeon pada semua orang. Namun Namju menyangkal dan mengatakan itu palsu. Jiyeon yang tengah hamil diakui oleh Namju bahwa dia adalah ayah dari janinnya. Pertunangan berlangsung. Jiyeon dinikahkan dengan Namju. Namun Namju meninggal sebelum pernikahan karena diracun. Terungkap bahwa Mina yang meracuni Namju. Akhirnya Jaehwan membatalkan pernikahannya karena Mina dipenjara. Ia juga mendatangkan pendeta yang menikahkan mereka di Jerman sebagai saksi. Ia pun berhasil dan akhirnya bersatu dengan Jiyeon.

Dirty South 2 is a tumultuous continuation of the happenings, mishaps, mayhems and the crazy affairs that characterized Dirty South and it's movers and shakers in the likes of Coco Kaave, Chief Kaave, Chief Onapuruagu, Detective Flynn, e.t.c When the news of Coco's dad, Chief Kaave's death, shook Dirty South, bringing to a close an era of revenge, betrayal, power tussle and a need for control; Coco quietly married Chief Onapuruagu, the man she loved and settled into the daily life of being a good wife with the thriving Empire, TRENDZ, which she fought and earned. Life never felt better for Coco... However good things never last and a heart breaking moment did shake her out of her blissful reverie when she suffered a forced miscarriage during her gender reveal party. Who could have poisoned the unpoisonable Coco? Coco leaves everyone and everything to seek solace in Kuje Island, now, everyone knows Dirty South is about to rain blood! Coco's soon to be born offspring was murdered and someone had to pay for it.

Rachel Shine Arcena, a girl who is as bright as her namesake, experiences a life that suggests otherwise. Dahil sa kahirapan ay napilitan siyang magsakripisyo para may makain ang kaniyang pamilya; dahil dito ay nawalan na siya ng oras para sa sarili. Sa hindi inaasahang pangyayari ay nakilala niya si Linderio Kryz Santos, isang masiyahing binata na walang hangad ku'ndi ang maging masaya ang mga tao na nasa paligid niya. Binago niya ang pananaw ng dalaga sa pagmamahal, at tinuruan niya itong buksan ang puso sa pagmamahal. He showed her his own definition of love, even though the world is against them. They still fight for what they deserve. They still strive to make it happen.

Initially, I think a little puppy wants to climb the social ladder with his good looks, but I later realize that his skills are… I blush in embarrassment when he asks me how I feel. Despite that, he doesn't let me off the hook. Instead, he keeps pushing me for an answer. "Do you like it, angel? You smell so good. You're so sweet and soft…"