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Did you hear the news? BITTER OVER SWEET was featured in @msmagazine.com's list of Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! buff.ly/oD6cAJf

Preorder a copy of BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social right here: buff.ly/NJbAI32
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 22h

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

Did you hear the news? BITTER OVER SWEET was featured in @msmagazine.com's list of Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! buff.ly/oD6cAJf

Preorder a copy of BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social right here: buff.ly/NJbAI32
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!! Please join us!! I am so excited 😍❤️🥰

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 2d

Make sure to register for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's book launch event with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social over Zoom on November 7th at 7pm EST! buff.ly/CtKtA0k

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/3pPOviA
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 1d

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 2d

Make sure to register for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's book launch event with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social over Zoom on November 7th at 7pm EST! buff.ly/CtKtA0k

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/3pPOviA
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 2d

Friday night is cigarette-in-hand, tits out, turning away from the front door when you clock his dirty blonde flop, angle the drink so it spills over, and you have to lick the sticky sweetness off your fingers.

and that ending...

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 3d

Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe)
Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 3d

Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe)
Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 3d

New micro CNF by Sumitra Singam!
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

Sumitra Singam | Friday Night Is

www.claudineliterary.net

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 2d

I remember the darkness of our room at night, orange-checked curtains shuttered tight, the watery blue of the television flickering across my mother’s lined face, lips razor-thin...

@dawnwriter.bsky.social

citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled to have a piece in the Fall Issue of The Citron Review! 🥰
citronreview.com
#flash #cnf #flashlit #writing #writer

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 2d

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 2d

Squeeeeee!! Here it is!! THE FIRST ONE OUT THERE!!!

Thank you @aniking.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️

@sfwp.bsky.social

Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 2d

Ahem, in the grand tradition of the comments section: FIRST!

Absolutely delighted to have this out here in the wild(s of urban Michigan). @lumchanmfa.bsky.social dropped another banger!

Picture of a book with a bold blue, yellow, black, purple, red-orange and white cover in a Hawaiian print, with the title BITTER OVER SWEET in all caps.

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 2d

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