Hawaiian native Tita works to escape a vicious cycle of poverty and abuse, only to realize along the way that life can not only be better, it can be whatever she wants it to be...
Melissa Llanes Brownlee, a native Hawai' ian writer living in Japan, received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has been widely published in literary journals and magazines, including The Rumpus, Cincinnati Review miCRo, Indiana Review, Craft, swamp pink, Moon City Review, Wigleaf and others. She doodles @lumchanfa and plays her ukulele at @lumchanukulele on Instagram. She also tweets @lumchanmfa and talks story at melissallanesbrownlee.com.
