One Day It Came to Him

Chris is meeting this grandmother and grandfather, Al and Sarah, for the first time. This is also the first time he’s … More

A Judge of Character

“Sir? Excuse me?” Ronald Ito turns around, sees it’s an older security guard. Close cropped silver hair, the kind of … More

What does it really mean to arrive fashionably late?What, you’re too busy with your important life to show up on … More

You know your romance has gone awry when toys fail. I’m not talking about batteries. I mean when suggest a … More

I’m happy to say that Episode 9 of One Halloween in Honolulu, my latest Lieutenant David Chan crime story, is … More

“To another Valentine’s Day,” the older man said, lifting his pint. The two, sitting side by side, clinked glasses, took … More

We’re in our late 60s now. We’ve been getting together to watch the University of Hawai‘i Rainbow football games for … More

All eyes turned up from their work as Clayton strolled into the office. They were waiting, mentally laughing in advance at … More

Sometimes he wished life were a movie. But not just any movie. From the first time he fell in love … More

First thing the next morning, David Chan called down to the evidence lock-up to find out if everything from the … More

“It’s right there,” he said, pointing to the small break in the tree line, hard to tell from this far … More

You have seen the way this hand withdraws before, the slow move away and fall of silence layering into sand, … More

The first thing Chan did when he arrived at the Holo Holo Bar was call the King Surfrider Hotel. Yes, … More

“Wouldn’t it be great,” said Yamamoto, “if there were a place where every key made was cataloged? Then we’d be … More

Both sides said a cross of little and big things to each other, and given the way the conflict played … More

Mrs. Harumi McDonald did not care for the stares. When she and her husband had lived in Los Angeles, people … More

I’m happy to say that Episode 7 of my new Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella … More

She stopped for a moment to steady herself. The thought of this being what it’s like to have dementia crossed her … More

That is some face framed by snaking black hair right behind the glass highly visible precisely to be so seen … More

Here’s my rough draft for today, Thursday 01.27.22. Little Birds, Big Show This morning on my walk around the Ala … More