My father, a Korean of his generationwould use that opaque yellow pomadeto slick back his black hairTres Flores BrilliantineI can … More

Today’s word is flying Use it in a piece or writing, or to inspire a piece, and then post what … More

Yu Byung-ki was no sentimentalist. He’d grown up cooling and hardening into a block of ice. His grandfather had arrived … More

They laugh and shake their heads, my old acquaintances,call this one too far a stretch of the imagination,a coffee klatch … More

Chan downed the last of the Jack Daniel’s with one swallow.  It would be so good to sleep right now, but … More

On the other side of the International Datelinemy credit card balance is zerothe Astros have just swept the Nationals for … More

after too much rise, too much fall, will we find that way to bring us back, lift us behind the fortress wall, all rolled up … More

Sergeant Victor Yamamoto could have made Lieutenant by now.  He could also have been a happier man, but life hadn’t worked … More

and it came to passthat there was no more pity for the beautifulall their wishes had fallen to dustunfulfilled for … More

Rollie and Benny dashed down the alley and rounded the corner.  Of course Bobby Sniffen, with the momentary roadblock provided by … More

Despite her father’s worries about practicality, Sarah had majored in art with a dual focus in photography and painting.  She’d actually … More

Someone far away, speaks somethingto me from the eagle-taloned lectern clutching,a bird of prey perched upon the ball of earth,ministering … More

So no one heard any screaming.  None.  Not upstairs, not downstairs, not out on the street.  All this silence while someone was being … More

I know the precipice inching up on me,feel blindly with my foot behind me,try to step backward, back into our … More

It’s warm here, the end of October, the day we marry. Here on The Bund, in sweating, modern Shanghai,we two … More

Time splits it perfectly, the ship’s hull knifesand gone to ghosts on the water, a lost mirror shatteredinto a million … More

Mr. Santos lay in the heat not cursing his son’s name.  He wasn’t that kind of man.  But he did wonder why … More

Two lovers who have found someone to love will understand how the beauty of Kāne’ohe Bay, sparkling under the windward … More

I’ve always been so much of us in another day, I seenow how I only saw directly into darkness,stared myself … More

Chan finished interviewing the residents. Of course they were all just honest, hard-working women. Every one of them was employed … More