cambrian's omniverse (a collection of short stories)

Hindi matatanggap ni Tyler ang biglaang pagkamatay ng kapatid niya habang nasa malayo siya. Ang guilt at bigat ng kaooban dahil sa isang pagkakamali sa kapatid ay labisc na nangpahirap pa sa kanya. Ngunit ang labig na nangpabigat ng saloobin ni Tyelr ay ang huling kahilingan ng kapatid bago ito lagutan ng hininga. Peo halos hindi makapaniwala si Tyler na ang ipapakiusap ng kapatid ay ang pakasalan niya at alagaan ang babaeng kalaguyo nito.Paano matatanggap ni Tyler na ang nais ng kapatid niyang pakasalan niyaay bukod sa kabit na nito ay babaeng bayaran pa. Pero ang kasalanan sa kapatid na halos naging bangongot sa gabi gabi ni Tyler ang nangtulak sa kanya para mangako sa kapatid. Ipinahanap ni Tyler ang baba para offeran ng malaking halaga upang pakasalan pero hihiwalan din matapos lamang ang isang taon ngunit sa kanyang pagiimbestiga ay nalaman ni Tyler na ang lahat ng ari- arian ni Theo ay isinalin nito sa babaeng iyon.kaya pinagisipan ng hindi maganda ni Tyler ang babae at pinagbintangan na may kinalaman sa pagpapakamatay ng kapatid niya. Samantala... Si Erika ay naman handang gawin ang lahat mabuhay lamang si "Dos" lahat ay gagawin niya kahit pa ang ibenta ang kaluluwa.Tahimik na silang namumuhay mag ina.Isang beses man silang kumain sa isang araw ay ayos lang basta ang mahalaga ay magkasama sila at walang sakit. Pero hindi akalain ni Erika na guguho ang mundo niya isang araw ng sumulpot ang isang lalaki at nagpakilalang kapatid ng ama ng kanyang anak. Kung balak nitong kunin ang anak niya ay maghahalo ang balat sa tinalupan. Hindi siya papayag na ilayo sa kanya si "Dos"

The tree I fell from was rotten. It's leaves were rotten, it's bark was rotten, and it's roots were rotten. Unfortunately, I am an apple that didn't fall far from that rotten tree. I was groomed in the shadow of that rotten tree and sprayed with poison to ensure I would be nothing but it's germinated seed. My earliest memories are dark and painful. My most vibrant memories are coated in crimson red and shame. The small pieces of my soul that I kept hidden and protected are the only parts of myself I can tolerate. The rest of who I am... The despicable trash that haunts my dreams... I hate. Death is the only answer to my life. Not love. I don't deserve love. A tainted apple is never put amongst the ripe juices apples. It is thrown away, discarded... As I should be.

SYNOPSIS Katherine Thawne grew up the hard way, life in the streets had never been fun. Her already hard life gets complicated when she gets tangled up with the Leader of the Italian Mafia, the most respected and feared man all over the world. Katherine Thawne is set to live a new life. A life has the Mafia's slave. Well...till her debt was cleared!

In my previous life, I had been suffering from a terminal illness when I won the lottery.  To my shock, Mommy advised me to forgo treatment and leave the winnings to my younger brother, David, to use for his marriage.  I refused to become an accessory to his future, so, behind my parents’ backs, I donated every bit of it to an orphanage.  When they found out, they were furious. They called me a heartless, ungrateful wretch.  After severing ties with me, they abandoned me at the hospital. On David's birthday, they gathered as a family and celebrated him while I was left to die in the hospital, utterly alone. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back on the day I had won the lottery.  Recalling the pain and betrayal of my past life, I resolved to leave my parents that very day.  But to my surprise, when I returned home, they had completely changed.  They doted on me and showered me with affection.

Tired of her marriage with her cheating husband, twenty-three years old Betty Von Rosey, relocates (as advised by her friend, Laura) to Gut’s Island, an island that is believed to be magical enough to relieve the pains of the broken hearted, by sparing them chances of falling in love the second time. On the Island, she falls in love with a billionaire in the disguise of a chauffeur, birthing a new wave of romance between the two. But things begin to chatter when her red room ex-husband, Braun, visits the Island, and she discovers the true image of her recent lover, Stan.

Kahit halos hindi na makatayo sa kalasingan ay agad na pumunta si Maya sa dance floor at doon ay parang wala sa sariling umindak sa tugtugin. Ito ang paborito nilang kanta ng ate niya. Napaluha siya, at napaupo sa sahig, hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa rin niya ito kayang kalimutan. Pakiramdam niya ay siya nalang ang nag iisang tao sa mundo. "Miss, are you okay?" boses ng isang lalaki Tumingala siya rito habang inaabot nito sa kanya ang isang panyo. "Ate Riza?" hilam sa luhang tawag niya rito.

Raeyshen Amore was a woman who didn’t want to hold memories from different people. For her, memories were distressing. For her, memories wouldn’t do you good. Because she herself saw how those "memories" destroyed her life. How it tore every part of her... Pero, hindi niya maintindihan kung bakit siya ang nagiging memorya... siya ang nagdadala ng memorya. Memories kept bugging her life. Those memories prevented her from being happy. Alam niyang may kakaiba sa kaniya... Kaya paano kung dumating ang panahon na kailangan niyang pakawalan ang lahat dahil sa memoryang nakita niya? What would she do if the man she loved would be the reason for her end? Would she ignore the drop of memories? Or would she let those memories stop her from living fully?

On our wedding day, Jon Zeller flies to an island for a trip with his childhood sweetheart. I'm greeting our friends and family when I receive a notification to pay for their bills at an expensive hotel. When everyone doubts the authenticity of our relationship and mocks me, all Jon says is, "A wedding is just for show. You can handle it yourself." He hangs up without another word. My father is so enraged that he ends up in the hospital after getting a heart attack, and I'm in desperate need of money for his surgery. Yet Jon uses the money to pay for a romantic fireworks show for his childhood sweetheart. When my father wakes up, I tell him I'll marry the man he's picked for me.

Wynter Aguilar is ordinary woman and a café owner. Isang lang naman ang tanging hiling niya sa buhay. Ang maayos at tahimik ang buhay na ibinigay naman sa kaniya. But everything changed when she met the man named, Cassiuz Velasquez. A drop-dead gorgeous man, rich and ideal man to every woman’s dream. Hindi lang maintindihan ni Wynter kung ano ang nagawa niya sa lalaki at lagi itong nakasunod sa kaniya. What she didn’t know that Cassiuz Velasquez will like her to the point of no return. Hindi rin naman maintindihan ni Cassiuz ang sarili dahil unang beses na pagkakita niya pa lang kay Wynter, nahulog na agad ang loob niya rito. Right at the moment, he wanted to make Wynter as his wife and he starts pursuing her. “You’re the one whom I want to be with.” – Cassiuz Velasquez.

Luna Elsa is gifted with magic but she couldn't use them because she never trained and had difficulties in conceiving a child for her mate, which lead to her losing her Luna position to her own eldest sister which she found out was having a sexual affair with her mate, with this, she leaves the pack out of pain but worst comes to worse when her eldest sister orders for her death and she begs the gods for a second chance and is reincarnated into a magic school where she will learn to become a power mage for her revenge.