Manila Stories

Manila Series #1 Joshua Miguel Quijano has everything under control--until he's forced to share a room with Kyle Lorenzo Tan, a deaf roommate whose smile never falter. What starts as inconvenience quickly turns into something he can't quite solve like his engineering equations. But Kyle isn't someone you "fix," and Joshua isn't used to not being able to figure things out. In a room too small for two completely different worlds, control slowly stops meaning anything, and understanding starts to look a lot like something else they were never prepared for. noviscuit ©2026 Written in Filipino and with Love. We do not, absolutely do not, accept homophobic and close minded readers here. Read responsibly and open-mindedly :) Genre : Teen Fiction / Romance Language : Filipino-English Date Started:

Lucien Vergara has everything the world envies-wealth, power, and a future already written for him. But inside the gates of International School Manila, he is just a broken boy hiding behind expensive silence and dangerous habits. Drugs keep him numb. Parties keep him distracted. And pain... he buries where no one can see it. Until the night of his eighteenth birthday. When the lights go out. When the guests start screaming. When his entire world turns into fire and blood. Lucien wakes from the ashes with only one thought left in his mind: Find the killer. And make them suffer. But the deeper he falls into Manila's criminal underworld, the more reality begins to fracture. The messages guiding him. The enemies he destroys. The revenge he builds from nothing. None of it may be what it seems. Because sometimes the most terrifying monster... is the reality you created to escape the truth.

ARKI SERIES #1 Emil Reyes grew up seeing the harsh reality of being poor, bata palang siya ay nasasabihan na siya na walang karapatan ang mga katulad nila na mangarap o maghangad ng higit sa lusak; kaya when Matty de Vera propelled his heart to him, Emil did what he thinks is the best--push Matty away. noviscuit ©2026 Written in Filipino and with Love. We do not, absolutely do not, accept homophobic and close minded readers here. Read responsibly and open-mindedly :) Genre : Teen Fiction / Romance Language : Filipino-English Date Started: May 12, 2026

Paano pag hinanap mo yung taong sa panaginip mo lang nakikita? Kahit alam mong nasa isip mo lang siya. Susubok ka pa rin ba? Hahanapin mo pa rin ba siya? O Hahayaan nalang siyang maging isang panaginip lang? Pero paano kung napanaginipan ka din niya? "IKAW! Ikaw yung nasa panaginip ko! Ikaw yung hinahanap ko!" "Nasa panaginip din kita" Ps: This story is purely made by imagination.

In the rain-slicked, neon-shadowed alleys of Manila, magic is not a gift-it is a live-streamed cage. The Hegemony controls the grid, licensing relic attunements to the highest bidders while the poor scrape the undercurrent for scraps of forgotten history. But these ancient relics carry a brutal cost: The Toll. Every time Kael activates his father's jagged obsidian shard, he pays with pieces of his own past. A childhood voice. His mother's face. The sound of his father's laugh. Now, with a raw attunement rate of 26% and his brain bleeding from cognitive shock, Kael is running out of memories to burn. Saved from deletion by Mika-a rogue "Baseline Breaker" who uses a weathered brass key to freeze local physics-Kael is dragged into a high-stakes conspiracy. Hidden beneath the Walled City of Intramuros, they breach the ancient stone ramparts, only to find a terrifying truth: Manila's historical landmarks are built on top of massive corporate hardware harvesting the city's attunement. With the Hegemony's elite relic hunters closing the circle, Kael and Mika overload the grid, triggering a spatial tear that launches them north. Ahead of them lies the MacArthur Highway-a continuous, dangerous overland road trip running through Bulacan, Tarlac, and the rugged Sierra Madre passes, completely bypassing the corporate expressways. To find his missing father and survive the journey, Kael must hunt down his father's lost relics, dodge bullets by tracking where the spectators are looking, and decide how much of his own real past he is willing to erase to hold onto the power he needs to survive.

A place of eternal rest can sometimes bloom a long-overdue carnation.

Manila, 1924. With a fiery spirit and a passion for writing, Sofia Flores pens a letter about her life in a world on the brink of change. She could never have imagined that her words, against all odds, would receive a reply - not from her present, but from a century in the future. Manila, 2024. Rafael Garcia, a historian passionate about the city's history, stumbles upon Sofia's letter and begins a correspondence that spans a century. Drawn into his research is Aryanna - a fellow history student from a different university who shares his fascination with history and the mysterious diary he discovered. As they work together to decode the impossible messages, they realize their shared secret is more than just a historical oddity - it's an unseen, dormant power within the Flores lineage that has attracted a dangerous rival eager to claim this unthinkable power for themselves. Now, caught between two eras, their budding feelings and their very timelines are at risk. Can they protect the secret that brought them together? Or will their love across time be the very thing that unravels it all?

Transferring to Manila for College is never easy for someone who spent most of her life in Province.

This is for the round 2 of the celebration.

awii just read it ;)

NOTE: Chapters are short in terms of word count, that explains the chapters available. Faye, is an iskolar ng bayan from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, is on the verge of losing the one thing she fought for the first time, her life in Manila, away from a home where every move is dictated by her family. That is her chaos. Kreil, a communication student at the University of Santo Tomas, has everything, privilege and a secured future already carved into his palm. However, even having almost everything, he wants nothing. That is his chaos. Their worlds first collided when Kreil made a bold move and suddenly decided to pretend to be couple with Faye to claim a couple bracelet they both wanted for its design, despite being complete strangers. What should have been a one-time interaction becomes the thread that pulls their life closer to each other, until Kreil makes her an offer in exchange for his protection from the family she's desperate to escape, she has to live with him and be his personal cook. Is this a summer-like run away or another chaos that would only lead them deeper into the storm? In a fast-paced city, will they be able to find calmness amid the chaos on every road in Manila?

In a city of power, privilege, and quiet expectations, love is never just love. Among Manila's elite-where names carry weight and choices have consequences- lives intertwine in ways they were never meant to. Behind polished smiles and perfect lives are stories of almosts, of feelings that came at the wrong time, and connections that were never meant to last... but did anyway. Some will fall in love. Some will fall apart. And some will learn that even in a world where everything can be chosen- love... isn't one of them. Maybe, it stays. Maybe, it doesn't. Maybe, Manila. These are their stories. Every story begins somewhere. This one begins with them- Celestine Lopez Villanueva and Diego Castro Reyes. Maybe, Always.

In the midst of this global pandemic pausing threat to health and life of everyone, distorting the Philippine economy, industries, transportation, and even education-no one would expect love will come in this fateful and unprecedented event in our most recent history. Cielo, who hails from Bacolod City opted to take her chances at the busy and noisy life of Metro Manila than to blindly obey the wishes of her grandparents even before the declaration of the lockdown that closed borders from one town to one including cities and provinces. The young lad from Negros believed that she'd rather experienced first-hand hard work than being paired and marry someone she never knew, a certain Iñigo Luzuriaga from the scion of immunologists in their province, whom she has not met. Armed with her optimism, experience as a college editor, and the blessings of her loving parents, Cielo flew to Manila following the few calls of his daddy to his contacts, amigos, and business partners. While Chum is slowly getting back to his system after falling out with Trish; Roque for an undisclosed reason. Trying to move on Chum has always put pressure on himself to be the best at what he does with the tiniest hope that perhaps Trish will notice the changes. But what they did not know is that nothing will be the same again. Everything has passed and are now part of the new normal, and better chapter of their individual and cumulative life as Chum and Cielo were tasked to work together, a work that will spur camaraderie, chances, and hope to two unknowing hearts.

Angelica Hailey Lopez-a girl who dreamed to become a teacher went to Manila then he bumped to a guy named Cloud Gabriel Palma a chef and a son of the owner of restaurant Two opposite world one who went to pursue her dream and another was seeking to his future will they fall Inlove to each other or remain as friends

SERIE VICIOSA UNO: DESIRE MY BEAUTY Acquisha Zahara Alcantara

When Charlie Ronquillo finds herself short-staffed for a couple of days, she finds help in the most unexpected person: Sid Agustin, her fruit and vegetable supplier, who was also the same guy who recently ghosted her. Left with no choice, she lets him help, and discovers that there was more to their failed date that she didn't know. Will Charlie give this attraction another chance, or is it better to close the door and forget everything about it?

Lyanna Torres has only ever known dance as her first and one true love. Even the faint rustling of the leaves or the clinking of silverware during dinner can already make her tap her feet and slightly bob her head. Lyanna was a force to be reckoned with. If people were rain, everybody else faded into a drizzle but Lya was a hurricane. And what better place for her to let that head and raven hair of hers go rampant on the streets than in New York? Ballet and New York-or in New York was Lya's golden snitch. That is why when New York City Ballet chose her to be one of their corps de ballet she wasted no time and made her way to the top of the ladder. Lyanna had an intensely positive outlook on life. It has been good to her so she has point blank reasons to be a grinch. The music of everyday things in the bustling city was enough for her to keep her jazz intact. However, all that jazz collapsed along with her knee and the dream of dancing ballet until her last breath. She lost the Lyanna she knew all her life and she only wore clothes that matched her one mood: miserable... However, the emotion-filled bottle she kept closed suddenly exploded as she stumbles upon a dog and something completely peculiar during a walk in Central Park.

The household wakes up to an air raid and bomb falling. Ambrocio, the cook, who is at the window, rushes outside while the radio blares the ditty Joy to the World.

"The Innocence of a girl will always be protected by her mother", This was hard to believe for a girl like Diana Ventura- since alongside her innocence, she was also forced to bury her mother. With the loss of the woman she looked up the most , her misfortune continues as she was chained up like a dog to her step-father's ambitions and principles. All her life he made decisions for her, making sure not even a strand of hair falls out of place, and evidently choosing her husband. Diana never wanted to have a husband like Caspian Soleanna, the center of the crowd's attention, the golden boy, the so-called money maker. Why? because she believe that a man as powerful as Caspian, is as scary as her step-father. After two years of contentment in their marriage, Caspian speaks up of having a child with her. "How could I possibly raise a child? When I am such a stranger to the love of a mother?" With both the fear of being controlled by a man and bitter memories of her childhood bombarded her thoughts. Her paths remain clear to her as she is led to only two choices. 'Continue to play the obedient girl, or run' Which will she choose? *TAGLISH STORY*

Filipina-English self-proclaimed tomboy, Joe McCarthy moves to Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England and starts adjusting to a new life. She gets sent to Grace Randolph Boarding School, a co-educational Boarding School on the countryside where she befriends a few people, but feels awkward around them. She felt even more awkward around her classmates, especially the boys since she studied in an all-girls school back in the Philippines. She later meets and befriends the school's prefect from her year, Luke Taylor. They enjoy each other's company and as time went by, they change each other's worlds.