Melissa Llanes Brownlee

Wheel of Fortune

Melissa Llanes BrownleeSeptember 5, 2022

Tutu took a bottle of fish sauce and the only green mango left and draped the curtain between us in the kitchenette and his cubby hole. My mother rolled her eye...

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee (she/her), a native Hawaiian writer, living in Japan, has work published or forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, Reckon Review, The Hennepin Review, Cheap Pop, Milk Candy Review, Lost Balloon, Atlas + Alice, Fictive Dream, Five South, and Cotton Xenomorph. She is in Best Small Fictions 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, and Wigleaf Top 50 2022. Read Hard Skin, her short story collection, from Juventud Press. She tweets @lumchanmfa and talks story at www.melissallanesbrownlee.com.

Fiction

Murder, Everyday

On the Fourth Anniversary of the Attack of the Spiderbees

Now We’re a Family

Poetry

Ritual of the Dead

My Abstraction

Burger King of Rome

Flash Fiction

Echoes Across the Ocean

College and Collage

Making a U-turn in the middle of Route 17 in the middle of the night

Reviews

DR. D.T.R.’S BIRDS AREN’T REAL CURED MY PARAFEARMONIA: A TESTIMONIAL

Random Occurrences

I Am Disappeared

Interviews

An Interview With Abigail Rivera Ramirez

ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis

Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer

Columns

The 21 Best Small Press Books From 2021

Writer of the Week: Tanner Ballengee

Writer of the Week: Jeff Schneider

Melissa Llanes Brownlee

Wheel of Fortune

Melissa Llanes Brownlee