Once upon a time when I was still a fledgling writer – I still am I suppose, only older and a little more battered – when my friend Annabs presented me with a project. It was called Promdifiction.

I liked the idea. It was short stories that were to be presented in 5 parts. Half of it is fact, and the other, fiction. It’s up to the readers to figure out which parts are pulled from the writer’s inventory of imagined experiences and which are true events. I wrote a story for it, entitled Ang Pagtakas. The story eventually made its way to another publication – at which point it became a victim of a mix up that retitled it into “Promdification.”

Promdifiction.com is now an experimental site (found here: promdifiction.tumblr.com) and still lovingly maintained by Annabs. The magazine I published the story on is still on shelves, though I won’t to tell you which mag it was to protect my poor pride.

Anyway, to start off this year’s February lovapaloser series I’ll release Ang Pagtakas here again in the form it was originally intended to be read: in parts. I hope you enjoy it and give me feedback, will you?