The Bigger Person

The dream was so horribly vivid that I thought I was awake and watching the news on TV. A friend … More

My World

Eventually now, I see the whole wide world we knew,if we live long enough – I’m finding it’s so for … More

It was up there somewhere, that ideal place where the dead waited for me.I learned about afterlife and angels long … More

The trip down is always tricky in the dark. Have you ever had something to do, some minor task, that you … More

The music stopped, but we kept dancing. We could hear the melody going on, even though the musicians were packing up. … More

“Gramma, come on. Next stop Zippy’s.” Sometimes I can’t believe I’m still alive to hear this. Every year, the same … More

Will we find that it’s fine, eventually, all by itself,that it’ll blow over with the passage of time, I wondered.Life’s … More

You know that’s a word, right?It’s one of those onomatopoeia types.Those that come from a sound.Like when you’re trying to … More

How hard should a reader have to work to get something out of a poem?Would digging a hole to China … More

The sea rises and falls helpless under the moon waves roll on their cover – in sunlight birds dove and … More

It’s funny, I thought – on the non-stop to New York,staring out at the little pockets of light spread againstthe … More

The 7th episode of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform: https://t.co/JpDGhZjcGR

Spring was an adventure; we were learning the ropes.Summertime, a little easier going, working out the kinks.Fall ushered in those … More

Here we wooeee go, pardners, it’s the Wild West times, an’ the Wild South too, an’ the Wild East as … More

The consequences of confused minds would have bound us in that spot. We’d just found majority, still too young to live … More

We park and she says nothing; it’s getting dark. I follow in her hunting, block after block, down one street, … More

Sometimes it’s a straight line,the closest distance between two points.But it’s not necessarily a flat line.For some, yes, that’s true, … More

The Closest Shave Episodes 1 – 6

I could smell it on him the moment he entered the room. Even more than usual. My eyes began to water. You’d … More