The Rational Optimist

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.

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.

Blurb After being betrayed by her boyfriend and kid sister, Nora James, the illegitimate daughter of the James family decides to leave the country and start a new life, thereby, changing her name to Nora Daniels. But then, she discovers that she was with a set of twins. Unable to trace their father, she decides she has to raise them herself. But five years later, pushed by too much hardship, Nora decides to return to get her revenge on those who'd betrayed her and also to regain her mother's company, which had also been stolen from her along with her boyfriend. She bumps with this handsome billionaire, Aiden Brookes who she decides to get married to, to have a place to crash. But then what happens when she discovers that he was actually the father of her five year old twins. How will she be able to navigate through getting her revenge and her growing live for Aiden?

If you started having hyper realistic dreams about a boy you've never met, living in a land you've never visited, your first reaction probably wouldn't be to leave home and everything you know just for the small chance of finding him, right? You would just convince yourself they were just dreams, and you were going crazy. I mean, no rational person would swim through a portal, enter another world, and discover not only is their dream boy very much real, but they have another soul mate anxiously waiting for the day you save their people and lead them in the new age. Right?

The moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops came unexpectedly. People had no idea that raindrops carry an infected agent, which consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat and multiplies only within the living of a host. It's like a piece of code that can copy itself and has a negative effect, such as corrupting the system and destroying the mind's rational data. A virus that was so small and infectious that once infected, a person's body became a reservoir of virus particles, causing the infected person to become carnivorous. Every second is crucial. Who will save humanity from the undead army? Will you save the world even if around you is on the verge of death?

Eighteen-year-old Bella stands on the brink of adulthood, her life shadowed by haunting nightmares of a bottomless pit, swirling smoke, and glowing silver eyes that feel all too real. As her final year of high school unfolds, the dreams intensify, blurring the line between reality and illusion. With her best friends Ethan and Olivia by her side, a seemingly ordinary Saturday at the mall takes a chilling turn when they encounter the mysterious "District 6" bar—where Bella alone witnesses a brutal vision no one else can see. Torn between her rational mind and an inexplicable pull toward the unknown, Bella must unravel the secrets of her visions before they consume her. Is this the call of the white wolf, or a descent into madness?.

When a certain situation leads Diva Adler and Blaze Hudson into a church, where a mass wedding ceremony was taking place, the last thing they expected was to get married. Diva Adler is a talkative girl who always remains happy. She is an optimist who can point the best out of the worst situation. She can’t stay quiet even for a few minutes. She prefers to make everyone a part of her life. Meanwhile, Blaze Hudson is a young bachelor who started his own business. He is usually quiet, and only talks when absolutely necessary. Before looking at the bright side, he looks for any negative ramifications. He is a pessimist and prefers to keep his life private. She loves chaos; he loves peace. She is chirpy; he is silent. She is an extrovert, while he is an introvert. What happens when they are tied together through an unexpected wedding? What happens when The Extrovert Weds The Introvert?

According to a wise saying, 'a person often meet her destiny on the road she takes to avoid it'. This was the case of twenty years old Lara Kingston also known as Phoenix. She is a talented acrobat and a ruthless assassin. Thirteen years ago, Lara lost everything she held dear. Ever since then, her heart remained frigid. On her path to seek revenge, she encountered Dex Logan at a masquerade party organized by David Kingston, – Lara's ruthless and cold-hearted uncle, who was responsible for the mysterious death of her parent Dex Logan, is the twenty- seven years old, handsome billionaire CEO of the Logan Aviations. He is an optimist, a ruthless dictator in disguise, and a hopeless romantic. It was love at first sight for Dex but a huge annoying distraction for Lara. Would Lara consider Dex's proposal at the cost of her personal vendetta? Would she forgive Dex after learning the bitter truth surrounding her parents death? Would love triumph or would it come crashing down?