Manila Encounters Vol. I

#ManilaEncounters was a Twitter hashtag that went viral at around the last week of February 2019. Originally, it was intended for crowdsourcing ideas to insert into a Random Encounter Table of urban fantasies set in Metro Manila. As the tweet numbers slid into the thousands, #ManilaEncounters morphed into a microfiction prompt for horror stories. This was surprising, but obvious in hindsight: In M…