Christopher Laurence Marquez has always trusted systems more than uncertainty. As an engineering student newly arriving in Texas, he believes in timing, structure, and observable patterns. Life may shift, but most things can still be understood if examined carefully enough. Adjustments can be made. Distance can be managed. Feelings can be kept where they belong. Then orientation week changes direction. What begins as ordinary proximity with Brandon and Blake Hayes, identical twins at the center of Texas football culture, slowly becomes something Christopher cannot organize into logic. Brandon moves through the world with warmth and momentum. Blake with quiet precision. One pulls him into the noise. The other teaches him where stillness can exist inside it. The connection does not arrive dramatically. It builds through repeated conversations, shared routines, quiet reassurance, and the strange comfort of being noticed without being forced open. But as campus life grows louder and football visibility expands around them, Christopher must confront a possibility he has spent most of his life preparing against: that some people do not enter your life to become temporary. Some return. Some remain. And some become familiar long before you are ready to call them home.

It all started when peace meets war. Northridge University's resident badboy genius meets his match in the form of a snobbish transferee from Avalon University. Copyright © 2024 by J.C. Ortega

Kayla, anti-romantic creator of a 26th-century matchmaking system, has to confront Analyst Mathew's theories on love and soulmates in order to defend her life's work from becoming a business disaster. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Kayla Lacson is the brilliant mind behind Dorothea, the most advanced AI dating application of the 26th century, designed to calculate compatibility with extraordinary precision. She trusts data, logic, and predictable outcomes, believing that love is a biological equation that can be solved. Mathew Matel is a Behavioral Analyst as brilliant as Kayla is. He joins her team, and his theories on love and soulmates challenge her belief systems. And when Dorothea's latest revision loses public trust and corporate pressure mounts, he becomes the catalyst that pushes Kayla to uncover the flaws in her creation and fracture her carefully structured world. Despite Dorothea's calculation of their incompatibility, Kayla is drawn to Mathew. Flashes of his face begin to haunt her as she tries to untangle his unexplainable familiarity. And soon she must decide whether love is something to manipulate or something she must surrender to. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ ONC 2026 Round 1 Winner and Ambassador Pick Round 2 Winner and Ambassador Pick Round 3 Qualifier and Longlister ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Genres: Romance SciFi Speculative Fiction Unconventional SciFi Hard SciFi Slow Burn Romance

She came from a family that was cursed to carry on the job of being a cupid in exchange for never ending luck in everything that they do. ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Warning: This story would not circle around people finding love. Rather, this story talks about how 'love' would find its way towards people's hearts. Are you ready to dive in to the story? Would love be successful?

Isang sumpa na nabuo nang dahil sa pag-ibig. Isang pangakong ibinaon at binitiwan ilang daang taon nang lumipas ang patuloy na nanatili't hindi kumupas kailanman. Nabibigyan ba ng pangalawang pagkakataon ang tamang tao sa maling panahon? From a young age, Malia Rivera has been burdened with memories of the past because of her inborn ability to take a glimpse of people's past lives. Then she met Chase Rodriguez, the youngest business tycoon in the country-and the first person she met afflicted with a curse! Desperate to find answers to their predicament. These two souls burdened by the weight of the curse from the past joined hands, and Malia became the wife of the most sought-after man. Kaakibat ng kanilang pag-iisang dibdib ay magkasama nilang babaguhin ang nakatakdang trahedya mula sa sumpa na nagmula pa sa kanilang ninuno. *** Language: Tagalog, English Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery Status: Part 1 Completed | Part 2 Coming soon

Isang propesiya ang kinatatakutan ng lahat na maganap. Propesiyang nagsasaad ng kakila-kilabot na katapusan sa sandaling ang kadiliman ay hindi mapigilan. Isang natatanging babae lamang na siyang itinakda ang makapipigil ng kanilang kinatatakutang katapusan. Ngunit kapalit pala ng kalayaan at kapayapaang inaasam ng lahat ay ang sarili niyang buhay. Handa niya bang isakripisyo ang kaniyang sariling buhay alang-alang sa mga minamahal niya at sa mga umaasa sa kaniya? O mas pipiliin na lamang niyang mamuhay nang normal malayo sa mundong talagang kinabibilangan niya? Tatakasan ba niya ang kaniyang kapalaran o buong tapang niya itong haharapin at buong puso niyang tatanggapin ang kapalit ng kalayaan at kapayapaang hinahangad ng lahat?