Philippinesetting Stories

Isla San Gabriel was born into wealth, raised behind the white walls of her family's ancestral estate-a place where secrets were buried deeper than the roots of their land. At 27, she had everything: a loving husband, a restored ancestral house, and the promise of new life. Until the miscarriage. What followed wasn't just the loss of a child, but the quiet crumbling of her marriage, her identity, and the life she'd built far from the cold expectations of her mother, Doña Celestina. But grief has strange ways of blooming into hope. When Isla returns to Hacienda San Gabriel to recover, she finds unexpected solace in the last person she thought she'd ever rely on-Silas Navarro, her childhood nemesis turned successful estate manager, a man both adored and avoided by the family. Slowly, amidst mango blossoms and hushed letters tucked into old books, the cracks begin to heal. But Isla's healing doesn't just belong to her. It's tangled in the stories of the women before her, the wounds that run in bloodlines, and the love she thought she lost forever.

A roman twisted by time. When a boy suddenly appeared in her room, Charlie soon learns the truth of her broken family.

Jacqueline Gorospe is known for her bittersweet romances-stories that end not with forever, but with longing. Readers call her the queen of "almost," though she secretly wonders if her inability to write happy endings comes from her own guarded heart. When she abandons her latest manuscript unfinished, something impossible happens. By morning, the missing final chapter is there-tender, hopeful, and unlike anything she has ever written. It is signed by a name she has never heard before: Noel Estañero. Then, at a crowded book fair, Jacqueline meets him. Noel is real-or at least, he seems real. He knows her stories, even details from drafts no one else has read. He feels like a man who has stepped straight from her imagination. But questions haunt her. Noel has no past, no history, no proof of existence before the manuscript appeared. Her brother suspects a hoax. Her editor fears plagiarism. A rival critic accuses her of inventing him as a publicity stunt. And yet, when Jacqueline looks into Noel's eyes, she sees the ending she has never dared to write for herself. As her deadline looms, Jacqueline faces an impossible choice: keep the story unfinished and hold onto Noel, or finish the last chapter and risk losing him forever. Tender, magical, and bittersweet, The Last Chapter We Wrote is a meta-romance that blurs the line between fiction and reality. It asks: If the love you always dreamed of appeared before you, would you write the ending-or live it?

Somewhere in a province in the Philippines, a pretty boy has to endure one school year in the only private school in the area. The story will follow Santino Gael's exploration of the province where he is faced with the harsh realities of love, friendship and himself. Raised as a city boy, he has to adjust to the new world that welcomes him. * Written in English for international audiences * Any similarities with other stories and personal happenings are not made on purpose. * Book cover was made in Canva per Wattpad's suggestion. P. S. I hope you read and enjoy the story! (Which is my first book, anyway)

Two academic rivals are forced to work together for a national writing competition that could change their futures. They start as enemies, become reluctant partners, then something more, until pride, fear, and timing get in the way.

This is a story inspired by my cat. Names are changed for certain reasons.

"When the gods fall silent, their children must listen" When the moon over Cebu begins to fade, Aria Tala's ordinary life fractures with it. Shadows stir in the water, the earth trembles beneath the city, and her grandmother's old myths suddenly feel too close to the truth. Virelia Marisen

Two hearts connected by an app. Two timelines split by fifteen years. One promise echoing through the night.

Raphael Evangelista and his teenage daughter, Unna, have been living peacefully in Bastilliera, an island town in the Philippines. However, their idyllic life turned for the worst when, after Unna's eighteenth birthday, she started having vivid and cryptic dreams about Uvira Zir, the queen of an alien race known as Zirraks, and that she was coming for her. Confronted by his hidden and tumultuous past involving the alien queen, Raphael decided to immediately leave the island, whether his daughter liked it or not. But it was too late. Uvira came. Time was ticking, and now he must find Unna first before she does.

In the quiet embrace of the Cordillera mountains, where the wind carries stories and the earth remembers every tear, two souls found each other not in perfect moments but in broken ones. Phil Onise had once built his life around love. He believed in forever until the woman he loved betrayed him, leaving behind more than just heartbreak. He came to Baguio carrying silence like armor, grief like weight, and a past that refused to let go. Ziny Nemis arrived at the same place with her own scars, a dream shattered by betrayal, a trust broken by someone she thought would stay. She didn't come to heal. Not at first. She came to escape. But the mountain has a way of making you face what you carry gently, patiently, powerfully. They met not as saviors or soulmates, but as strangers walking the same trail one step ahead, one step behind, always finding their way back to each other. And slowly, healing began. Not with grand declarations. Not with fairy tales. But with shared meals beneath starlit skies. With hikes through pine forests and whispered conversations beside campfires. With honesty. With time. With choice. Because sometimes, the only thing stronger than pain is the love that grows from it. "Where the Mountain Heals" is a story about second chances, not just in love, but in life. It's about how we carry our pasts, but don't have to be carried by them. And it's about the quiet magic of the mountains How they change people. How they mend hearts. How they bring us home. To ourselves. And sometimes... to each other.

Sa bawat hampas ng tambol, may pintig na hindi niya maipaliwanag. Sa bawat ngiti't asar, may damdaming pilit itinatanggi. Hindi niya hinanap ang pag-ibig. Pero dumating ito-maingay, makulit, at laging andiyan. Hanggang kailan kayang itanggi ang pintig na itinakda? At kung muli silang pagtugmain ng tadhana, sapat pa ba ang puso para muling sumayaw sa saliw ng pag-ibig? Sa Pintig ng Tadhana - isang kwentong sinayaw ng panahon, sinabayan ng tibok, at minahal ng pusong kahit ilang ulit masaktan... ay hindi kailanman sumuko.

They say UP Diliman is where dreams are made. But for Jasmin Xzan Lykaois, it's where secrets, rivalries, and unexpected love stories collide. She's the sarcastic queen who swore she'd never fall. He's the cold, untouchable class president hiding storms beneath his silence. And then there's the boy who makes her laugh even when she wants to cry. Friendships are tested. Loyalties are questioned. Behind every smile, someone hides a wound. And when the past begins to bleed into the present, Jasmin and her friends realize that growing up means facing the truths they've been running from. In a world of exams, betrayals, stolen glances, and whispered confessions under the acacia trees, can love really survive? Or will their tears remain hidden in the clouds forever?

One roof. Four guys. One Girl. And then there's a lockdown. Marco thought there's going to be fun days ahead in light of the new addition to their rented house. But it turned into a series of a living nightmare as they got stuck there in the middle of a lockdown. **A shorter version of this story was originally published as "Just One Of The Boys" from the anthology Outside Looking In** © 2020 @kathnappy This is a work of fiction. The characters and scenes in this story either are the product of the author's creative imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events and persons, living or otherwise, is coincidental and unintentional. Cover design made with Canva.

Greg never expected to fall again. After Enzo left, he thought his heart had already closed its doors - until Gabriel came. The twist of fate? Gabriel wasn't a stranger. He was Greg's childhood best friend - the same boy who once hurt him without meaning to, and the same one who would one day teach him how to love again. With his laughter, patience, and quiet warmth, Gab slowly brought color back into Greg's gray world. What started as comfort turned into something deeper - a love that felt like sunrise after a long storm. But fate has its own way of testing hearts, and soon Greg would learn that some goodbyes come not from choice, but from time itself. Still, even after everything, the warmth of the sun remains - a reminder that love, once real, never truly fades.

In a university built on polished speeches and silent struggles, two third-year students find themselves caught in the storm between truth and appearances. Aiah, a working scholar from the margins of society, has learned to survive by standing her ground fueled by a past filled with shame, injustice, and grit. Mikha, the composed leader of an elite student group, navigates systems with quiet authority and a name that opens doors. When a student campaign against inequality is quietly sabotaged, the two must choose between compromise and confrontation. They don't need to agree. They just need to be heard. "Labels and Lightning" is a grounded college narrative about power, poverty, and the courage to speak even when the world tells you to stay quiet.