In a small town where ensaymada meets sisig, two neighbors find more than just food to share. Lana, a warm-hearted transwoman baker, and Paco, a dedicated transman chef, stumble into an unexpected romance that rises gently---like bread in the oven---into a love that feels like home.

Love was nowhere to be found. For her, she'll never find love quite as good as the first time. A kind of love that wasn't questionable to the palate even if it wasn't hers to begin with-nothing would ever compare. For him, love can only happen once. A heart that stopped beating is as good as dead. If he couldn't make it right the first time, there's no sense trying for a second. Because no one and nothing would ever come close to how good he once had it. And yet, a universal truth pulls them together, a magnetic force so strong they couldn't fight it no matter how hard they try. Because somewhere between here and now, love has favored their side. Perhaps they were looking at the wrong places when love was always near. Nearly Theirs - a novel Ongoing (2025). Book Cover art by: kathanikath (on X/Twitter)

The five times Lucho cried to Khalil Ramos's song, and that one time Aga realized it was because of him.

Enrique and Meng were college lovers who once believed they had forever in their hands. But when reality became too heavy, their love met its fallout. What they left behind was a fracture. It's like an existing proof that endings are never as clean as they seem. Then came the news that forced them to face what they once ran from, and pushed them toward a finality neither of them never imagined. Ko Parents, a novel (2025) Language: Taglish Status: Writing offline/Sneak peek up!

❝ Anitchka, Anitchka, will you not invite me in? ❞ In which a girl is indebted to a wintry demon for saving her life, and the gold from her fingertips is a magic whose price she must repay tenfold. Unless she guesses his name first. | loosely based on rumplestiltskin |

erps series #3 on-going If only it were me, would you show love just the same? Maria Sarina "Masha" Escano has always been envious of everything that she is not-which made her heart rotten despite her angelic appearance. Distant, two-faced, and a brat. Iilan lang 'yan sa madalas n'yang marinig. She has an untamed greed for wanting more than what she can take. Para sa kan'ya, mess with her once and she'll make sure you're ruined once-and for all. When boredom strikes her and to help her best friend get even with Rafael Eastre Zaguirre, a famous sought out bachelor, she decided to play a harmless prank-creating a dummy account to pester him relentlessly. Nights of awkward flirting, sending memes, and shared laughter turned into nights where they get to know their inner souls and how a screen between them couldn't hide their fiery need for each other. Okay na sana. Kung ma-in love sa isa't isa, willing naman siyang umamin at humingi ng tawad; ng isang pagkakataon. . .but did she mentioned that the picture and persona that she used is not of herself? But her twin sister's?

[Sweets Series #2] Benisse repeats one thing to herself whenever Austen Lao comes into view: you can't confuse like with love. What began as a casual fling (an intimate friendship) slowly bled into something more. The new sweet note of her heartbeat forces her to pull the plug on the non-relationship. Denial becomes her armor, distance her defense, and hating him a last act of self-preservation. She can't confuse like with love. Austen has been abundantly clear about his certainty. There's no way the football prodigy could ever feel the same way... Not when his eyes still follow her best friend. Caught between the lies they tell, Benisse and Austen discover the magic of birthday candles and the dirty truth about wishing on stars. Feelings only stay buried for long enough until they're ready to explode.

MA student Pia Lacson interviews several men from Nueva Castallon who had decided to leave the priesthood, in hopes of proving that clerical attritions are multi-dimensional situations-- never driven by love alone.