Can you dance in the burning sand until the fire embrace you totally? Can you still hear the good melody of your heartbeat despite the consequence that if you stay longer you'll burn into ashes? Kaya nga bang panatilihin ng musika at nakakahalinang ritmo ang pagsayaw nilang dalawa sa nagbabagang buhangin o susunugin lang noon silang dalawa sa maling temptasyon? Will an affection sync with the rhtym of their dance or it will break and burned them alive because of their wrong steps in the sand? ISLA VAGUES #3

Status: COMPLETED Kayeziel Harselia Brizuela is the daughter of two multi-billionaire business tycoons, an heiress to a top company and corporation, and a princess of the Brizuela clan. But... she doesn't want any of it. She's exhausted from bearing these titles for years. Being locked under her parents' commands and chained to a fixed engagement has pushed her to the edge. She wants to run away. Sawang-sawa na siya - she's had enough and longs to break free, even if it means facing the violent waves that might crash against her as she flees. But what if, in the middle of her escape, she stumbles? What if a pair of dark, weary eyes pulls her back and holds her still? Will she choose to run through the waves toward freedom, or will she surrender to the warmth of his arms and float adrift in the sea? Isla Vagues #1 Start: Oct 13, 2020 End: Dec 16 2020

Status: COMPLETED Start: December 21, 2020 End: February 27, 2021 Will it still had the chance to escape a tradition that was already mark on the last name you had? Tradition, rules, norm, legacy, heritage, that term destroyed her life. How can you be free if all of those words were mix with the blood that flowing through your veins. Her plan when she plunged herself in the water and closed her eyes to feel the gentle breeze of the wind to cure and heal all her aching wound and bruises backfires when her heart pounded violently in seeing a pair of expressive brooding dark eyes. Hindi siya nagawang pagalingin ng hangin dahil ang presensiya at pares ng mga mata ang nagpahurumentado ng puso niyang matagal nang nakakulong. Can the wind heal her broken soul or there's a hope on his insulting and offending stare?

In a world filled with passion, one person dared to defy all - Xeverna Lael Costiñiano, the art wanderer. * * * Being an outcast in a family of master artists, Xeverna Lael Costiñiano knows she is an "art wanderer". Desperate to find a discipline to master, she becomes a jack-of-all-trades yet a master of none - an idea she never envisioned, which leads her astray. With one discipline yet untouched - sculpting - and a belief that being with passionate people will ignite her passion, she seeks an apprenticeship. The perfect place? The infamous art school - Royal Colleges for the Arts. The perfect mentor? No other than Michelangelo de Angelis, a man who not only makes sculpting his discipline but makes himself the god of it. But he refuses. For Michelangelo de Angelis, a man who seeks to be known as "Mikhail", there is no time to waste for someone like her. His blazing passion for sculpting, and a strong desire to be known more than the sculptor he was named after is something an art wanderer like her cannot understand. But it is not enough to stop Lael. Masters were once strangers; she can be one, too, even if she has to force herself towards it. August 1, 2021 - October 19, 2021

Growing up in a luxurious and perfectionist household, Savannah Brenner knew that there was no use in escaping the rules her mother created. As much as she wants to confess how sickening it is, she knows she won't be heard. After all, she is yet to prove her worth. But when she found warmth and affection in a man with a pair of emerald eyes, she found it in her heart to like a luxury. Once he smiled at her, she realized she would never have him unless she became imperfect. At the epigraph of his smile and the connection that would bud only for it to end in imperfection, she is left to wonder: is he worth it to be imperfect? Trigger Warning: This story contains minor references to self-harm. September 10, 2020 - March 27, 2021 COMPLETED

Elevators. Airplanes. Palaman ng Sandwich. Yung feeling na papunta ka pa lang at excited ka pa lang sa pupuntahan mo. Yung feeling na palapit pa lang yung birthday mo. Yung feeling na palapit pa ang isa pang espesyal na araw. Yung feeling na ilang oras na lang ay pasko na. Yung feeling na tatlong araw na lang simula na ulit ng pasukan. Yung feeling na nasa gitna ka pa lang at di ka pa nakakarating. Yung feeling na malapit na pero hindi pa. Yun ang laging gusto ko. Yung nasa gitna pa lang. Yung nasa gitna ka ng dalawang bagay. Gitna ng isang building. Gitna ng langit at lupa. Gitna ng dalawang matatabang tinapay. Gitna ng byahe papuntang disneyland. Mas gusto ko yung feeling tuwing nagbabyahe kesa doon sa nakarating ka na. Mas gusto ko yung feeling na may inaantay ka kesa doon sa nandyan na. I always like the things in between. "You only like things in between, Coreen. You only like the chase... You only want me chasing after you. You don't want to decide... Pero pakiusap naman, magdesisyon ka na, kasi tao rin naman ako, nasasaktan. And you? I don't think nararamdaman mo yung sakit na nararamdaman ko... You are just too heartless."

Alam mong kalaban pero nagawa mo paring mahalin. Alam mong hindi pwede pero mas lalo ka paring nagpupumilit. Alam mong mali pero ginagawa mong tama. Totoong masarap ang mga bawal. Pero masarap parin ba pag magkasakitan na? Masarap parin ba pag pinaiyak ka na? Hanggang kailan mo kayang ipaglaban ang pag ibig na hindi mo mabitiwan? Hanggang kailan mo kayang ipaglaban ang pag ibig na bawal?

Bata pa lang ay namulat na si Sunny na tatlong bagay lang ang kailangan niya sa buhay: bahay, pera, at pamilya. Namuhay siyang mahirap sa loob ng labing siyam na taon at ngayong bente na siya ay hindi iyon nagbago. Ang tanging nag bago lang siguro sa kanya ngayon ay ang pagkawala ng kanyang katuwang sa buhay: ang kanyang ina. Hindi pa nakakabangon sa sakit ay pinili niyang magpakatatag at mabuhay para sa sarili at para sa mga pangarap. Life is hard but it's easy to be strong. Iyon ang panlaban niya, ang pagiging matatag at pursigido. She was invincible because of that, but will she still feel invincible with a beast around? Lalo na pag napaibig na siya nito? Mahina ba talaga ang mga babae pag dating sa pag ibig? Because she was sure as hell beginning to lose all her strength. Ano nga ba ang gagawin Sunny kung ang magiging hadlang sa kanyang maabot ang lahat ng gusto ay ang siyang magpapaibig rin sa kanya ng husto? Worst. May magagawa talaga kaya siya?

Ang pag-ibig ay parang nagsusugal. Pag sigurado kang mahal mo ang tao, ibibigay mo ang lahat. Ang problema dito ay di mo alam kung may maibabalik paba sayo o wala. Maswerte ang nakakakuha ng higit pa sa inaasahan, pero luhaan ang mga sumugal at natalo. Pero ganun paman, tulad ng sugal, kahit walang kasiguraduhan, marami paring umiibig, marami paring sumusugal. Dahil... Baka Sakali... Baka Sakali...

Macario Karangalan Sandoval