Lee Cundañgan

Press intern Thomas "Tom" Garcia will do anything to get the first inside scoop on Newly Pulitzer Prize-winning author Aurelia Dela Cruz.
          
          Despite the author's many achievements, Aurelia remains introverted, and people have difficulty reaching her. 
          
          Living in a very secluded area just outside the metro, Tom tracks down Aurelia's residence with the help of his brother's police equipment and a call to Aurelia's intern/secretary and fellow College classmate, Stella Quiroz.   Aurelia, a very private person, refuses to do the interview and turns Tom away. Yet, Tom's persistence and seeing herself in him make Aurelia tell her story.
          
          Through it all, Aurelia tells him how fiction takes from reality the many lessons we can learn from them.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/333147682-the-chrysalis-project

Chapter 3. Exorcism: Of Angels and Demons
          
          
          "Your guardian angel is crying," Shelley pointed out.  We just finished our  rehearsals for our maiden production, when Shelley and my best friend Joaquin stayed to comfort me.  "Well maybe not crying but he is sad." She corrected herself. 
          
          Shelley was one of the few but very talented individuals that I know. Not only does she had an impressive set of pipes for singing, she can act and can see spirits of different sorts plus she's a modern-day arbolario like her father. Truth be told, she was not only able to see my guardian angel, she and her father detected and dispelled the dark spirit that once occupied my body. 
          
          
          
          
          LINK:
          https://www.wattpad.com/1272147400-friends-theatre-witchcraft-faith-chapter-3

FRANCESCO'S GOD'S KNIGHT FROM ASSISI
          
          (The Life and Times of St. Francis of Assisi)
          
          PROLOGUE. MONASTERY OF THE POOR CLARES AT SAN DAMIANO CHURCH. October 4, 1226
          
          
          Link PROLOGUE:
          https://www.wattpad.com/398508211-francesco-god%27s-knight-from-assisi-prologue

Reflection & Notes: Prologue, Everybody Can be God's Knight
          
          We are all called by God for a purpose. However, we may interpret things in a different way. We have to remember God's way is not our way.  So, this is how I started the theme and progression of FRANCESCO, GOD'S KNIGHT OF ASSISI. 
          
          Here's my Playwright's notes and reflection while doing the Prologue. 
          
          Link: https://www.wattpad.com/1272188008-francesco-god%27s-knight-from-assisi-reflection

A Word from the Playwright: My Spiritual Turning Point
          
          I've been writing and rewriting this play since 1999.
          
          This was my "comeback" play so to speak in the world of the performing arts. It was the play that made me realized that whatever theatrical talents I have (writing, acting, singing?) are all gifts from God and should be used for His glory.
          
          Doing this play in all of its literary reincarnations is, like the 'Panunuluyan', a spiritual journey. While the latter was done for the festive Christmas season, this play however, was mostly; if not I always written during Good Friday (except the times when I attended the Franciscan Youth Movement's 4-day retreat).  Weirdly enough, the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ was my way of penance especially since St. Francis was in a way a relatable, ambitious character that mirrors my own hubris. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1272112299-francesco-god%27s-knight-from-assisi-playwright%27s

I personally, have tons of things swimming in my head that have to let it out. Here's a short preface of a project I want to write about.
          
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          Preface: A Big Shout Out to "Big Mac" and Gaiman 
          
          Everything is literature and it is everywhere. Here's a short preface and brief acknowledgement to two of my  personal creative compasses who influenced & inspire me to do this anthology.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1271506551-sun-and-moon-and-other-short-stories-preface-a-big

PEELING THE ONION DURING COFFEE BREAK
          Chapter 3. Stuck with a Teen Spirit
          
          "Why are you talking like a teenager?" he asked.  I was in a middle of my this is my life convo  with Solex when he pointed out his observation. "You're 28 years old, but you speak as if you're Alicia Silverstone from Clueless." 
          
          The nerve! I thought. How dare he makes assumptions of me. 
          
          I told him, it all boils down to my current environment. I told him I'm surrounded mostly by young people both in the parish and at work via the different activity of the NGO I was working for. So, it is natural for me to gravitate and adapt the way the people around me  are acting. I told him, being "like them" makes me reach out more and relate to them. 
          
          Nope. That wasn't the answer and Solex was having not of that it either. He gave me a look of suspicion, as if saying 'That's not the answer, try again. This time be honest.'  True enough, there's more to it, there was much more. 
          
          An epiphany of thoughts, words and moments started to occupy my brain. It slowly found its way back, seeping through my consciousness. With a long sigh, the moment I dreaded is about to haunt me again and it was time to face it. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1271198833-peeling-the-onion-during-coffee-break-chapter-3

Friends, Theatre, Withcraft and FAITH
          (An unconventional Spiritual book for Mature-thinking, open-minded and non-judgmental folks)
          
          CHAPTER 2. ELIZA HALILI 2.0 (or Not)
          
          Acting and playing a character in real life became my superpower in college. I had a mask that I conveniently wore and allowed my maladaptive daydreaming to really simmer its way in my college life.  
          
          Transformation can be an understatement when I reached college. Gone was that "very nice" person that I was in high school. College was a new territory for me. I was a tiger waiting behind the tall grass ready to pounce at the nearest opportunity to explore, experiment and be anyone but my real self. 
          
          Nobody knows me, in Colllege. I'm a nobody. So therefore I can be another person, far from the one in high school. Without me knowing it, I embraced the unknown crevices of my soul and reached for "my other self", an other self hidden and was raring to get out. 
          
          I just wanted to be free and in doing so, I allowed myself to go for a downward spiral without me knowing it or being aware of it. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1270675814-friends-theatre-witchcraft-faith-chapter-2-eliza

"Friends, Theatre, Witchcraft and FAITH"
          (An unconventional book for Mature thinking and open minded readers)
          
          CHAPTER 1. The Unwanted Shell 
          Truth be told, I didn't start my theatrical journey because I love "the art", I forayed into the world of the performing arts because I HATED EVERY INCH MYSELF SO MUCH. Self-loathing was my number one reason why I wanted to be in the theatre when I was young.  Not denying it, because it's true.
          
          Yet if I given another chance, I will not change or redo my beginnings in the theatre. You see, sometimes God works in mysterious ways and in my case, this was one unexpected personal journey where he used the Performing Arts as a way to test my faith. But also, like gold in a furnace, this was an excruciating baptism of fire.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1270655173-friends-theatre-witchcraft-faith-chapter-1-the

Who's that mysterious guest that visits Elsa? 
          
          http://www.wattpad.com/43221166-the-christmas-visitor