Date Written: 2020 First Published: August 27, 2021 Second Published: July 2, 2025 I hope we could dance along with the rhythm of our heartbeats forever. Note: This story was written when I was 16 years old. © monaiah 2020 © cynkronous 2025

A toxic relationship. A girl who couldn't leave. Her. Ariadne Zamiren. How could she ever leave when that was everything she's known about love? It isn't love without pain. It isn't love without chaos. It isn't love without hurting. She didn't have her own idea of love anymore. However, something happened that forced her to open her eyes and pushed her out of her comfort zone. Someone showed up, too, who was willing to give her the unconditional love that's foreign for her-it was blinding, it was scalding, it was something new enough for her to be afraid and terrified. Nathaleon Hariette Yucheco was willing to give her experiences of a genuine, unconditional love-something that's not artificial and made up. Despite feeling incomplete, he was willing to give something that he never had in the first place. It should have been simple, but how can a heart-soaked through with toxic, fake love-unlearn being a dweller of an unhealthy relationship? How can it accept something that will complete it again, when it destroys everything in its wake? When it has become rotten inside that it unintentionally infects and breaks other people's hearts? Most of all, why would you love and try to fix a heart that has already fallen from grace? This is not a love story for the faint of heart, but for those brave enough to confront the unhealed wounds and the possibility of a new form of love. © 2024 CYNKRONOUS Era Started: November 22, 2024 Era Ended: October 26, 2025

What's cooking inside THE VAULT of CYNKRONOUS?

Fifteen years too late, a forgotten letter finds its way to Maureen Cruz - a quiet, burned-out woman who once dreamed of becoming a doctor. The letter is a confession written in careful handwriting, addressed only to her, signed by no one. Tucked inside the envelope is a cheap plastic ring that still lights up when pressed - a childish keepsake from an era she thought she'd left behind. That night, Maureen wakes up as her teenage self, back in an early-2000s high school where she was loud, brilliant, and always one argument away from trouble. Determined to uncover the identity of the person who once wrote to her, she searches for the truth - unaware of his face, his name, or the reason he never showed up when it mattered most. As she glitches between past and present, fate keeps pushing her toward someone she never expected: Ethan Nyx Valdez, the enigmatic class president she remembers as distant, cold, and annoyingly perfect. The more Maureen tries to avoid him, the more he becomes impossible to ignore - observant, controlled, and unsettlingly familiar in ways she can't explain. Every choice Maureen makes fractures time and reshapes the future. And as memories blur and timelines collide, she must decide whether love is something you wait for - or something you learn to recognize, even when it has been beside you all along. To the Beautiful You I Once Loved is a time-bending romance about missed chances, hidden love, and finding your way back to the life -and person you were always meant to choose.

- compilation of random oneshots

Paano ba ang pagmamahal? Sabi nila ang pagmamahal raw ay masakit. Para kay Einz Sattire Floresca ang pagmamahal ay pinaka magandang karanasan niya. Bukod sa pagmamahal ng mga magulang ay mas lalo pa itong naging makulay nang dumating si Mark ang lalaking nagbigay ng bagong kahulugan sa salitang "Pagmamahal." Akala niya, ito na. Ito na ang pagmamahal na halos perpekto. Pero paano kung isang araw, magising ka na lang sa katotohanang hindi pala lahat ng maganda ay totoo? Na ang akala mong panghabambuhay ay panandalian lang pala? Pipiliin ba niyang harapin ang sakit nang mag-isa, o hahayaan niyang may ibang pumasok upang muling buksan ang kanyang puso? Sa tag-init kung saan lahat ay tila masaya, matutunan kaya ni Einz na ang pinakamainit na araw ay maaari ring magdala ng pinakamasakit na paalam? Isang kwento ng pag-ibig at muling pagbangon kung saan ang puso ay matutong magmahal muli kahit ito'y minsang nadurog na.

Ang pagiging ina ni Caroline Jean Vuenaviste ay hindi madali para sa kaniya. Realizing that unknown man touches you. Nakakadiri, hindi ba? Ngunit hindi mo maaaring husgahan ang nangyari sa tao kung hindi mo naman alam ang buong katotohanan. Ngunit paano kung biglaang bumalik ang taong hinayaan kang mamuhay mag isa at hindi inalam ang nangyari sa'yo. Ano ang gagawin mo? Is he still remembering the night you shared? Maaalala ka niya kaya?

Sa lahat ng pagod na nararanasan mo. Pahinga ang kailangan mo. Masipag, matyaga, puno ng pangarap. Iyon ang mga katangian ni Roan. Nakakaramdam ng pagod ngunit hindi sumusuko. Para sa mga kapatid at pangarap. Minsana'y naghanap ng pagmamahal ng isang ina. Na kahit kailan, hindi naibigay. Ano ba ang pahinga? May ganoon paba sa mundong ginagalawan ko?

This is a collection of one-shot stories with a mix of monologue and dialogue-style writing, narrative storytelling, poetry, etc. --- 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: Some of the stories explores dark and sensitive topics, including emotional pain and psychological struggles. Proceed with caution.