°Tentang gadis biasa saja yang menginginkan hal luar biasa.° --- Namanya Yona. Gadis penuh rahasia yang mendambakan segala yang dulu ia miliki. Bagi Yona, Tuhan itu tidak adil. Kenapa semua orang bisa tertawa lepas tanpa harus memakai topeng penguat? Sedangkan dirinya harus mati-matian menyakinkan bahwa topengnya melekat kuat? Hingga suatu hari, Yona bertemu dengan Dave. Lelaki aneh yang tidak memiliki ekspresi apalagi emosi. Sehari-hari, ia menggunakan bahasa tubuh. Bagi Dave, hidupnya adalah hidupnya. Ia tidak suka keributan dan cinta kedamaian tetapi takdirnya justru mengarah pada jalan lain. Dave memiliki kemampuan bisa mendengarkan kata hati orang, hingga setiap hari ia memakai earphone untuk memanipulasi hidupnya yang lebih berisik. Pertemuan keduanya selalu menciptakan konflik. Dave juga tidak mau keluar dari zona amannya, tetapi karena fakta mengejutkan ia terpaksa harus terus bergantung pada Yona. Karena Yona adalah tempat ia berlindung dari keributan. Karena berdekatan dengan Yona ... telinga ajaib Dave bisa lumpuh seketika, dan hanya ada satu suara yang terdengar, yaitu Yona ....

[CERITA INI SUDAH DITERBITKAN] Dia, seperti Caramel Macchiato. Dibalik tawanya, dia sedih. Dibalik keceriaannya, ia menyimpan luka. Semua orang hanya tahu bahwa ia adalah seseorang dengan sejuta keceriaan yang ia tebarkan tanpa tahu ia juga mempunyai sejuta kenangan pahit yang ia tutupi semanis mungkin. Tapi, tak ada minuman yang tak pernah habis walau terus saja diminum, bukan? Semakin lama, caramel yang ada diatasnya itu terkikis. Lalu, jika caramelnya sudah habis, akan ada rasa kopi yang pahit. Mungkin sedikit pahit karena sudah dicampur oleh gula dan susu. Dan lama lama, dia sudah mulai menampakkan kesedihannya. Membuat semua orang bertanya. Tetapi Ia tetap berusaha untuk menyembunyikannya semanis mungkin walau mungkin tak semanis dulu. Copyright © 2014 by Iffah Ariqoh.

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The world had gone to hell long ago, taken over by the vampire race. In order to keep some sort of peace in our land, the Vampire Lords made a consecutive agreement. The rich and powerful humans could survive just as they had been, untouched by the vampires save for the occasional blood collections, or so they thought In reality, we were all under their control. Castles spread out throughout our land, one landing in each city. Each castle varied in the number of vampires residing there, but all of them carried a Lord. The Lords were the ones in charge in every city, whether we liked it or not. The vampires often roam through the city, making sure that everyone was in order and no one stepped out of line. If you stepped out of line, you died, end of story. Even if the rich were still under their control, their lives were still better than the poor. The poorest lives held a much worse fate. The men were to be put to work as slaves, whether that meant serving a specific vampire, or just building their castles, they were slaves. The women were to be pets. Pets were the lowest rank you could have. They were forced into cages that were too small to stand in with collars around their necks. They spent their lives in pet shops, just waiting for the dreadful day that they'll be bought. They were treated like animals, trained into what their master wanted, and punished if they misbehaved. Those who were lucky enough to live through that, we're to be slaughtered for their blood at age twenty-five in an act to make sure that our population would stay steady. I was born into this world. Born into this world full of blood-sucking monsters. Except, I was one of the lucky ones. Was. It all ended for me when I was 12, when I was taken away from the last bit of hope and family that I had left. Ever since then, I've lived in a cage, just rotting away, waiting, dreading for the day that some monster would make me his. This is my life. I am a pet. ~~~ Cover by: @mshacake