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Rumpus Original Fiction: Six Micro Stories

April 24th, 2023

Our eager fingernails fill with dust as we dream of sweetness on our tongues.

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, Five South, Astrolabe, Parentheses Journal, Empty House Press, Gigantic Sequins, and Indiana Review. She is in Best Small Fictions 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, and Wigleaf Top 50 2022. Read Hard Skin from Juventud Press and Kahi and Lua from Alien Buddha. She tweets @lumchanmfa and talks story at www.melissallanesbrownlee.com.