What Dreams May Come

A dream you dreamt. It’s the one that surprises you at noon the following day. Eating your sandwich or washing … More

The House of Missing Keys, Part 16

Here’s my rough draft for today, Monday 05.30.22. The House of Missing Keys, Part 16. Chan watched Mrs. Souza cry … More

Memento Mori

He realized relatively young in life that he would die. That knowledge comes to each of us at a different … More

The House of Missing Keys, Part 15

Recovering her composure, the woman opened the door and invited the two inside. After the three were seated, Chan began … More

Let’s Learn

On the bus we’re headed through the desert for the Red Sea,crossing a staggering, desolate landscape.The heat outside withers you … More

Holding On

Our group, struck by the sight of a medusa tree riding astride its monstrous barrow mounded base, myriad tentacle fingers … More

Cliché, Not a Cliché?

I don’t think I’ve ever said to someone that something I’ve heard has been refreshing.I’m not sure I know what … More

The House of Missing Keys, Part 14

As Chan and Yamamoto waited for the coroner, Hank Lee, to arrive, they sat on the sofa across the coffee … More

Only Ifs

One moment I’m lying on the ground staring at the sky,writhing in pain because I’ve broken my ankle, desperate,air harder … More

labor under old love’s illusion

unblinking at a new moonmoving thin skin outlinesilver sliver shimmering roundperfect, the odd center of it allmilky, muddled, blotchy, shadowedtaken all … More

Episode #3 of The Closest Shave is now available on Kindle Vella

Episode #2 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery series is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

The House of Missing Keys, Part 13

David Chan had been a very happy only child. More than five years into that blissful solo childhood, however, his … More

Saturday Night

We hear it, the neighbors screaming at each other,the shrieks bending the air through the neighborhood,two drunken enemies meeting on … More

Better Luck

Steel, maybe, lots of steel. Perhaps concrete by the boat-loads. Wood, really, I would rather not use. Impermanence has proved … More

Good Talk

Why curse? Would you pluck out your tongue,hang it on the wall as a hook for your black umbrella, onebattered … More

The House of Missing Keys, Part 12

The next morning on the drive over to Kailua, Chan told his partner what had transpired the night before in … More

Getting To Know You

We held a first party yesterday, those of us who could finally attend.After all this time being apart so much, … More

The House of Missing Keys, Part 11

“Lieutenant Chan, good evening,” said the huge shadow. Chan recognized the voice immediately. The bartender of the Holo Holo Bar … More

Episode #1 of my 3rd Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery now available.

I’m happy to say that Episode #1 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on … More

As Borrowed as Time

It’s as grim as it gets right now tonight when all you want to do is buy beer kick back … More