Yee-Haw!

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

Choice

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

One Two One

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

How Is It with You?

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

Episode #6 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

The Closest Shave Episodes 1 – 6

A Good Listener

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

A Quick Trip Home

My dad used to have them outside his den. I remember sneaking down there in the dead of night to … More

No Ghosts Go Naked

If you ever see a naked ghostplease know you’re being had.No one has ever seen a genuine naked ghost.This is … More

The Pattern and Order of Life and Water (for LY)

Wherever there’s waterthree atoms have formed a molecule of H2O,and on that molecular level this bondis the orderly arrangement of … More

The Rice Eaters (for GB)

They sit bent over a creaking teak table top,this old pair aged out in days, near the limit,eating simple fare … More

Looking As If She Were Alive (for Robert Browning)

The last meaning what? This guy.I’ve read enough stories, seen enough movies and TV showsto know that there’s always the … More

Our Father

Arthur, our dad, told us all about who knew what and who to know. He was a big wheel in … More

InSignificance

On the board it says in gigantic letters:Save — Do Not Erase!double underlined, a mathematical equationsurrounded by a huge protective square,so … More

Solitaire

Two months since I left Wisconsin, packed up and moved home to Hawai‘i. The phone rings, and it’s her. I … More

Traveler’s Mileage Rewards

You regret it now, the random encounter you had while on vacation, when your genitals burn you awake in the … More

Hit and Run (the Mouth)

I spot her in my passenger sideview mirror. I’m stopped, waiting for a car and a pedestrian to clear. I … More

A Blue Christmas Is Certain

No amount of snow – and they have lots of it – can possibly hide every single blue thing in … More

An Unsuitable Way for You To End It With Me

I’ve been dumped many times, and one thing I’ll sayis that every time it happens it’s so awfully cliché.I hate … More

Driver-less Cars

I sit behind you at the stoplight, and I know you. The light turns green, but your head bows toward … More

Seeing Things

“There there there!” says Eddie, pointing through the crack in the curtain. “See what I mean?” I still don’t see … More