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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 20h

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

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 20h

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

❤️❤️❤️

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

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

Thank you @aniking.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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

I got my first picture of my official copy of Bitter over Sweet in the wild 😍😍😍

@sfwp.bsky.social

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/WBt6m5o

buff.ly

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

weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️

youtu.be/04_evIXHxh0?...

weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ (October 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Melissa Llanes Brownlee

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI today we're featuring Divine Intervention by Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social #flashfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/10/05/d...

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 4d

Squeeee!! So honored for @megankkakimoto.bsky.social’s kind words!

@sfwp.bsky.social
@susanschulman.bsky.social

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 4d

There's just ONE MONTH left until the release of @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's upcoming collection, BITTER OVER SWEET!

With advance praise from @megankkakimoto.bsky.social, author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN’S NIGHTMARE, don't miss out on preordering a copy today! buff.ly/oBUnI6T
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 4d

There's just ONE MONTH left until the release of @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's upcoming collection, BITTER OVER SWEET!

With advance praise from @megankkakimoto.bsky.social, author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN’S NIGHTMARE, don't miss out on preordering a copy today! buff.ly/oBUnI6T
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 4d

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 4d

"We learn to breathe, to talk, to sing in her."

Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 6d

Check out my latest Pele micro in Ghost Parachute! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and love the art @damicandrea.bsky.social ❤️

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 6d

Read "One Day, Pele Decides She Wants to Visit Us" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social.

"her lava coursing down our streets into our houses, like liquid gelatin, as we eat our cereal and go to school, swimming through her."

tinyurl.com/y8jmem3w

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🥰❤️

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 4d

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 4d

“The author’s use of this metaphor is perfect & that last line is gorgeous. I love that they have woven, in this darkness, change & the possibility of escape,” says #Flash405 judge @lumchanmfa.bsky.social of Meg Taylor’s #Flash405 2nd-place winner. Read Meg’s flash poem here tinyurl.com/Chrysalis405

Chrysalis in the Dark - Exposition Review

by Meg Taylor 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Poetry I kept joy folded between tax returns, light too loud for the girl who learned to flinch. Still, something in me gnaws li...

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🥰

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 5d

"Our father, our uncles, our tutus, our teachers tell us to welcome her into ourselves, become one with her, she is the land, she is our life."

I really love this piece of writing by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social 💙💙💙
ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

One Day, Pele Decides She Wants to Visit Us — Ghost Parachute

her lava coursing down our streets into our houses, like liquid gelatin, as we eat our cereal and go to school, swimming through her. We learn to breathe, to talk, to sing in her. Our mothers, our aun...

ghostparachute.com

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much Dan ❤️

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