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As sharp and profound as it is deeply funny and moving, this novella-in-flash fuses psychology with pop culture, philosophy with the miraculous/mundane to pick apart our myths, take speculative detours into the origin and fate of humanity, and remind us all of the unfathomably precious time we've been given. With Kahi and Lua, Melissa Llanes Brownlee has crafted a rare book: one that does so much, and all of it so well.

-Liza Olson, author of Afterglow

In these 29 bite-sized stories, Melissa Llanes Brownlee. with her adroit imagery and language. creates a tale of fantasy that is enchanting, full of possibility and illusion. I was pulled into the mystical world of Kahi and Lua, the creators and destroyers of life, their many avatars, contemplations, and experimentations. Sprinkled throughout the book are delectable references to Hawaiian food and culture. All in all, this is an immersive and fantastic story by Llanes Brownlee, a skillful story-teller.

-Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, author of Morsels of Purple and Skin Over Milk

Pulling from both mythology and pop culture, this flash fiction inspired tale invites us to reimagine the mythical Hawaiian gods Kahi and Lua in a modern landscape as they might live and play and dream and battle with the temptations of the world. Smart, succinct, funny and poignant, Melissa Llanes Brownlee offers us a glimpse of eternity as her title characters become larger than life and also divinely human.

Nancy Stohlman, author of The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories and Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction

In Kahi and Lua, Melissa Llanes Brownlee drops her titular characters into the late capitalism of 21st century America, a Hawai’i of fast-food deliveries, 24/7 reality shows on a big-screen TV in a home with a lanai and a couple of adopted cats who promptly let them know who are the real gods in the household. Lua yearns to take a walkabout around the world while Kahi is content to study humanity from a rear seat on a Honolulu bus. Amidst this quotidian existence, they reflect on past catastrophes and a growing awareness of an approaching apocalypse in which they’ll have to make a decision: to stay godlike and eternal or join the human race— “who they have been pretending to be for so long.” These are sharply-observed stories that are at once lyric and funny, profound and provocative.

Sarah Freligh, author of Sad Math and We

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Kahi and Lua: Tales of the First and the Second

Kahi and Lua: Tales of the First and the Second

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