on-going A first-year med student from UST Medicine, Gabriella Beatrice Morel always knows that she can do anything she wants because of wealth and a pretty face. She finds solace in jumping from one fling to another because committing is not her thing. That's why entertaining the first-year med student from UP Medicine, Lourde Reagan Laxamana, and a fourth-year med student from UST Medicine, Aldous Francois D'aureville at the same time thrills something within her. A challenge. A game. A distraction from studying. One taught her that love can be felt in silence and consistency to achieve one's goal to become a doctor. While the other taught her that love can be freedom and palpable tension without knowing what tomorrow awaits. To look in front of the mirror and not recognize the person that she was looking at. To realize that over the years her identity was only built by what other people think she is. To see that she was never in touch with herself in the first place. As she reflects, all those wrong decisions, indecisiveness, and mistakes shaped her to become or not to become. That even when the rain and wind come forth to dim her sky, it cannot quiver, for it mirrors strength and love-a strong woman she becomes in the eyes of becoming a doctor. In spite of that, how can she handle another breakthrough when colossal storms with sword thunder come in to barge into her solitude skies? STARTED: JUNE 26, 2025

From greatness to being unknown. Augustina Coleen Lorenzo survived from a car accident, but the damage it brought is to forget her memories. Meeting Lourde Reagan Laxamana, her childhood best friend again brought back the feelings of what she had for him when they were young until med school. This time she has the courage to confess to him. To show him the love that comes from her calamitous heart. As she remembers the details of her life, it starts to unfold the truth about what happened to her. Her vulnerability. Her Indecisiveness. How she identifies the meaning of life during the years in medical school and to walk in the midst of uncertainty and fear in order to navigate one's purpose as a doctor. And how she realizes that the world that she has been chasing most of her life from other people will only be found in her fingertips. And the love that she seeks comes from the one who stayed during the struggling hours of her life. START: FEBRUARY 22, 2025 END: JUNE 24, 2025

Life is heavy, especially when you live on the surface of poverty. A nursing student from PLM, Keanah Amorsolo always pushed herself to study and to work harder just to make a difference in the life that she is living in the slums of Tondo. Meeting the most annoying medical student from UP Manila, Jovanni Villareal, is not part of her busy life, especially since he is only determined to piss her off. She did not know that he could introduce her to the other face of life and color it with his ecstatic personality and humor that echoed laughter in her chest. He became an escape for her. Those little hopes she wishes came true with one person. Him. How short-lived moments with her made life for him. How his perceptions of earthly things changed in the eyes of humanity. To love requires sacrificing a part of yourself, but still, it's worth it because it's love at the end of the day. But how can she continue to live when situations have buried her to the ground of chaos and disparity? She tried to scream for help, but only the ground could hear her. And him? He is busy saving his patients lives. START: OCTOBER 31, 2024 END: FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Brain. Tumor. Med school. Yogurt. Kisses and dreams. Navigating the spectrum of human conditions and returning memories from medical school. Calista Lavinia Laxamana stuck to the rules of progress she set for herself over the years. Because of medical negligence, she needed to accept her parents decision to marry a man that she did not know and met in the past. In the chaos of her mind and reality, she cannot feel anything, especially when the person she thought would be there for her turns back and left her in the abyss of hardships. He left her to deal with a marriage she had not appreciated in the first place. To be foreign in the journey without him. Yet, in the bliss of the breakdowns, Theodore Nathaniel D'aureville gave life to her dull, ambitious life, introducing her to the real art of medicine. START: JUNE 3, 2024 END: AUGUST 30, 2024

You cannot read this as a standalone story! Read "Addicted Damien" and "Abused Diablos" first! Sartori #3 "I abandoned Drugo. . ." . . . Mature Content Warning: R18+

Trinity Anne Limson sees every circumstances as calamities to her desire to just do nothing in life. Maging doktor? Hindi niya nakikita ang sarili niya d'yan. Her only driving force to stay in their competitive med program is to meet her mother's high expectations. But in the midst of the uncertainty of failure and peer pressure to make their lives easy, she was forced to be friends with the smart-nerdy guy from their department, Basil Dhin Azares, who is a third year student. The goal is to get something from him and yet he guide her to experienced med school in exciting way. She trusts him like a prayer. Ngunit tama ba na mag mahal nang sobra? Higit sa lahat... Ibigay ang parte ng iyong sarili hanggang sa maubos ka. Maniwala ka sa kanya at malaman mo ang bawat sikreto sa likod ng isang pangarap na maging doktor. That's one way to kill yourself. Maybe the storm will never be calm when life turns into a circus. START: JUNE 25, 2023 END: NOVEMBER 10, 2023

(Delilah Series # 2) "Is it true that you were your own stepfather's mistress?" Alam ko na kailangan kong depensahan ang sarili ko. I look at the few people who are seated inside the trial court. Sa mga mata nila ay nakikita kong hinuhusgahan na nila ang buo kong pagkatao. Dumapo ang tingin ko kay Lolo na nakaupo sa tabi ni Attorney Pelaez. Pumikit siya nang mariin. "N-No... No... That is not true... " namamaos kong paninindigan. Halos maubusan na ng lakas. I could not feel the witness chair where I'm sitting on anymore. Pumikit ako nang mariin at kasabay nito ay ang paglandas ng maiinit na mga luha. "Please... Hindi t-totoo 'yan... Please s-stop," pagmamakaawang hikbi ko. Yumuko ako dahil hindi na kaya pang tanggapin ang mga mapanghusgang tingin ng mga nasa harapan. Lalong-lalo na ng abogadong siyang tila ba nagpaparatang. "Do you have anymore questions, Mr. Attorney?" mahinahong tanong ng judge. "None, Your Honor," biglang namaos ang boses niya. "No more questions for this cross examination." Nag-angat ako ng mukha. Tiningnan ko ang hitsura ng lalaki na minsan ko ng minahal nang lubusan. I looked at the face of my mother's criminal defense attorney. The very face of Attorney Lake Jacobe Mendez.

Forced to enter law school, Artellia Mercaveles wants to prove to her ex-boyfriend and her mother that she can finish her degree despite her passion for the arts. But when she meets Fierro and her newfound friends, she soon realizes that life is more than living up to someone else's expectations. *** Art is the heartbeat of Artellia Mercaveles' soul. But when her boyfriend admits he cheated with someone from law school, she vows to prove him wrong and show the world she can be a lawyer despite her passion for the arts. Living under the shadow of her mother, a celebrated bar topnotcher, the pressure to succeed weighs heavily on her shoulders. Law school becomes her battlefield, and crossing paths with Fierro Oeuvre Fortaverde is the twist she never saw coming. Yet as destiny unfolds, Artellia realizes that chasing everyone's expectations is an endless void. She must now fight to define herself, not how others demand, but as the masterpiece she was always meant to become. DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. ILLUSTRATED BY: ArtbyMakade COVER DESIGN: Rayne Mariano

Bar Series #3 For Eve Ryn Sotto, time is the most powerful and important thing in the world. Ayaw na ayaw niya na nasasayang ang oras niya sa mga walang kwentang bagay kaya't sinisiguro niya na lahat ng gagawin niya ay naka-plano. She already planned everything in her life. However, Jhules came unexpectedly. It was so sudden that she didn't even foresee it. What is she going to do now? Isasama ba niya ang binata sa mga plano niya o hahayaan na lang niya ang tadhana na mag-desisyon? Will she let Jhules be the hands of her clock, or will she let time ruin both of them? WARNING: This story contains disturbing details that might not be suitable for you such as murder, illegal drugs, and abuse. Please read another story of mine if you are triggered with these kinds of topic. Thank you! Book Cover - Starry Tan

Bar Series #6 For as long as Avey Hermoza remembered, River Eustaquio wasn't into her. River made it clear that he would never love Avey. Friendship is the only thing he can offer. Avey was fully aware that a man like River would never break his rules for her. So, she tried to pretend that the man meant nothing to her. She even asked River to introduce her to his friends in the hopes that she would forget about him. She never did until she got married to Gael Toledo. Her marriage was supposed to be perfect. She loves the man, and the man loves her. However, everything changed when Gael discovered Avey's betrayal of him. While trying to save her marriage, Avey found herself in a tangled rendezvous with River that eventually led to bloodshed. River has finally realized that he cannot lose Avey for the second time. Now, he holds the gun. Will it be able to save Avey, or will it seal their love for each other until the end of time?