I Am Photo Man

If you’d ask me 20 years ago how I felt about phones,I’d have said something along the lines of them … More

A Game We Play

“Come out, come out, wherever you are.” A game I don’t actually remember playing.The only one I think might have … More

He walked our hill with a cane, his limp noticeable.My father asked him about it.He’d been disabled in combat in … More

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

I’m happy to say that the second in the series of my Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime stories is now … More

As he sits fingering his bottle of beer,wiping the sweat down in trickles,turning it slowly in tight circles on the … More

If I thought I could do it faster, I’d be setting myself up for heartbreak. But at my age everything starts … More

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

Here’s my rough draft for Wednesday 01.26.22 Of Story Order The highest sun was heaven’s hottest flower The full moon … More

Say 60 years ago this morning, my sister and I would have been awake much earlier than sunrise, earlier than … More

I sit beside her watching whileshe pushes puréed peas and meatloaf around the green plastic tray,stirring in pudding and some … More

I’m happy to say that the first episode of my second Hawaiʻi-based Lieutenant David Chan crime story is now available … More

Always a favorite of minethat last meal with youwriting about it repeatedlyhow we dined at McDonald’sFilet-o-Fish and friesthe grandest of … More

You tell me to go out, but I don’t want to die.You say it’s really so much better, it’s getting … More

I will enter the vault in search of the song I believe I have spun here on old vinyl.Memory could … More

It is similar to the way the deaf interpret music as vibration, but even harder to perceive if you are … More

I’m happy to say that Episode 13 of Follie: The Disappearances of Honolulu is now available on the Kindle Vella … More

It was nearly midnight. Chan, unable to sleep, sat on his lānai overlooking downtown Honolulu. Sitting here, year after year, … More

Digging up a spade of rocky soil in that old ground took exertion enough for three or four of a … More

I waited, breath bated, in anticipation and trepidation,the tenterhooks rubbing my flesh a delightfully reddish hue.Headen for a wed’n, I … More