The Rational Optimist

The tragedy began from the conspiracies and misconceptions of their parents. Something that happened years ago now holds an impact on their children, making them slaves to past sins and misunderstandings. Will their love for each other surpass this family feud? Will they choose their own fate or would they partake in the wrongs of their parents? Find out those questions and more as you flip through the pages of this astonishing story.

Casie is a teenage girl with dreams, ambition, and desire. like every other teenage girl, her life revolves around school, studies, crushes? and partying. But one day something happens...something really bad.. which has changed her life 360 degrees. Casie being an optimist takes things gracefully but every time she figures out something about her new life. Every time she discovers new facts regarding ANGELINA-her new home. Also, she gets the reality check when she discovers her real POWER and a SECRET.

Rational and intelligent, Ella always sees the world with the objective eyes of a scientist. She uses her knowledge to navigate her way through life and believes that hard work and patience would pave the way to her success. When lack of funding threatened to derail her research, a handsome CEO offers his help. Then, after one night of unexpected passion, she uncovers a different reality that her scientific mind could not explain. The world is not what it appears to be. Dragons and werewolves exist, hiding in plain sight. They are locked in an enduring conflict that had gone on for centuries and Ella is caught in the middle of the fiercest battle that could end it all. Ella always relied on her rational mind, but in a world where her reality collides with ancient creatures of legend and myth, where her decisions could tip the balance between two opposing forces, would she let her heart prevail?

When the optimistic Min Sihyeon wakes, she realizes that not only has she lost around ten years worth of memory but also that she was married to a stranger. On top of all that, she even had a son with that stranger!How absurd was the situation!That was too much even for a optimist like her!How was she supposed to be a mother of a five year old at nineteen although her current age was much more than that?Moreover, her supposed to be husband was too cold for her to figure out. Despite of saying that both of them were in love, she couldn't help but be suspicious.What were the secrets that were being hidden from her?

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Sejak kematian gadis tambatan hatinya itu, Adi semakin bimbang menjalani kehidupannya. Dia tak tahu harus melangkah pada jalan dan arah mana yang akan ia tuju. Karena ia pikir telah kehilangan satu-satunya semangat dalam dirinya. Hingga suatu hari, dia bertemu dengan sosok gadis yang memiliki rupa dan karakter persis dengan wanita yang telah meninggalkannya. Dari ujung rambut hingga ujung kaki tak ubahnya bagaikan melihat wanitanya kembali hidup ke dunia ini. " veny, pasti kau kembali hidup untuk menemuiku". Berkata pada dirinya sendiri lalu menghampiri gadis itu dan meraih lengannya. " Veny ? Sudah lama sejak saat itu..." Adi yang tersadar akan hal itu tak berani melanjutkan perkataannya.Gadis itu menoleh dan sontak kaget menatap Adi." Maaf, kamu siapa? " Tanya gadis itu heran." Ahh..ma..maaf nona, aku kira kau temanku. Na..namanya Veny." Dengan terbata-bata dan menunduk menahan malu.Tak berhenti sampai disitu, seraya melepaskan pegangan tangannya dari lengan gadis itu," Kalau boleh tau siapa namamu?"Gadis itu masih diam, tak tahu harus menjawab atau membiarkan saja. Karena ia pikir untuk apa meladeni pria iseng di depannya.Sesaat setelah gadis itu akan berbalik dan pergi, Namun sigap Adi segera menghampiri dan segera berusaha meyakinkan kata maaf padanya." Nona, maafkan aku. Telah lancang memegang tanganmu dan bersikap tidak sopan terhadapmu. "Dia berusaha sekuat tenaga untuk meyakinkan pada gadis itu agar mau memaafkannya. Dan...mungkin dia juga berpikir bahwa untuk bisa berkenalan dengannya, inilah saatnya berusaha.Setelah semua kejadian yang lalu, dia tak akan menyia-nyiakan kesempatan ini. Setelah kematian Veny, hampir 7 tahun berlalu dan barulah saat ini ia memiliki semangat baru lagi. Entah itu kebodohan atau rasa setianya pada kekasih hatinya yang membuatnya begitu lama untuk dapat merasakan kehidupannya kembali. Namun yang pasti untuk saat ini, Dia seperti kembali hidup dan bersemangat, setelah kelam menimpanya.

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.

Jika hati mulai mencintai Maka persiapkan hati untuk terlukaKarena setiap cinta memiliki lukanya tersendiriKalian bisa memilih cinta kalian sendiri tapi kalian tidak bisa mencegah luka yang datang. Luka bukan untuk dicegah, tapi untuk dilalui agar cinta semakin yakin jatuh pada orang yang tepat.

遠い日に貴方と出会った。 心の痛みを和らげるように、あの日の事を忘れようとしたあたし。 彼から貰ったプレゼントが二人を繋ぐ。

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.