Swimming Lessons Manila

Malayo naman ang Cebu sa Manila—dahilan kung bakit pumayag si Anastasia Ocampo sa proyekto na kaniyang dinaluhan sa Pilipinas, ngunit pagkarating niya sa meeting place ay nandoon ang lalaking pinakang iniiwasan—Mr.Tanner Grimes—pinakabatang multibilionare; ama ng kaniyang kambal na anak. Dalawang paraan lang ang alam niya; una 'wag na wag pagkitain ang mag-aama. Pangalawa, ay tapusin agad ang proyekto.

A college student named Avaelena discovered that she is pregnant. She met a wealthy businessman named Kairos at a bar. After what happened, he became her fuck buddy. Avaelena became his fuck buddy to hide her pregnancy from her parents while claiming that she is working in Manila while studying. Kairos proposed a deal to her: become his fuck mate, and he will pay her a week to prove to her parents that she is indeed working and studying hard in Manila.

Love!! Laura barely knew the meaning of that. She was an orphan, an orphan with no family and home but then one day she found it. Love!! It never lies, some say. She fell in love but the world has a weird way of coming back to us. Soon enough, her past came to become her future, after all, she told being raped as nothing. This taught her many lessons... Lessons from love, betrayal and friendships.

A mistaken kiss. A ruined engagement. A contract that changed everything. When small-town doctor Mirabelle Santos accidentally kisses a stranger in Manila, she unknowingly shatters the engagement of billionaire Jiro Del Fierro. To protect his reputation, Jiro forces her into a one-year contract as his substitute wife. Living under one roof with the cold and dangerous Jiro was supposed to be a nightmare—until secrets unravel, feelings grow, and a past filled with lies, betrayal, and stolen identities threatens to destroy them both. Would love survive despite of all hindrances that traps their way?

Rory and Todd have been best friends for the longest time. A smooth friendship with a lot of hidden feelings take an exciting turn after a DARE! What will happen when Rory demands a big change for herself and starts taking lessons to become a bad girl? What will happen when her teacher is her best friend that she is secretly in love with??? Can the physical attraction and chemistry they both feel be fought of or will they submit to pressure?

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.

All of us know that half of the truth is often a whole lie. That's what Saff life does.. Oreus promise that after he finishes his personal business to Manila, he will come back and Saff kept that promised to herself. Until then, the time flies fast and finally met each other. But after that, it seems their lives turns up and down, the promises that she kept on holding on was gone.. There is no way to escape. Will she keep relying unto that promise and continue loving him despite his disparment that made her life falls into pieces? Or just forget about it and living a life without him?

Tall, dark, and gorgeous with cobalt-blue eyes. It doesn’t hurt that he’s the billionaire owner of the resort we’re staying at. And all of it is just what I needed for my celebration weekend after graduating with my master’s. It’s our last girls’ weekend before my friends and I go our separate ways, and it’s going to happen with a bang. Literally. Hopefully. It would be a first. The desire was to keep things casual, but our connection is far too deep for that. Him being ex-military and me being an Army brat. The rules we each set up are shattered thanks to the raging passion between us. But eventually, I have to go home. What I never expected in a million years was that he might follow me. Enough swimming in the shallow end of the pool. We’re diving in deep.

Marcos Jax Gomez lived his simple life in Davao. He was happy with his life as a young man. Not until his mother died because of Leukemia. He left Davao and went to Manila to look for a job because he wanted to be busy so that he can forget the pain caused by the death of his beloved mother. There, he met a woman named Euka Tamara Knewtleg. The woman that will make him fall. The woman that becomes his first, but this woman will also be the cause of his sufferings.     Will Marcos be able to handle being away from Euka? Is he willing to fight for his love for the woman?

"We will never get along, Lexi,” Finn Mars said to Lexi Pierce. “I’m a dog person, and you're a cat person.” She nodded. “I know… You love to party, and I don't.” "I'm not really much into reading. I like hiking and swimming,” Finn said, lowering his head and brushing his lips to hers. “But if I'm a dog, I want to imprint on you and follow you around.” Lexi sighed, reached for his mouth, and nibbled playfully on his bottom lip. "I hate to admit it, but if I'm a cat, I want you to become my favorite person.” Like their choice of pets, they argued a lot, fighting like cats and dogs, but then he fell in love with her bossy secretary. Despite being different, if they learn to tolerate each other, they can be friends, but he was hopeful they would be more than that.