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Category: Writer Tuesday

burn that mother down

I stare into a mirror sometimeswhere we bathed in a fiery lakebaby seen over my shoulder those gray eyesI can’t … More

#Dancing, #Love, #Poetry, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday

Mr. Kim Rings In

Mrs. Robertson added, “We go to Europe frequently for Lambert’s business, but we manage to vacation a good deal.” “Yes, … More

#DetectiveStory, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterTuesday

London/Derry

Our guide seats us on the time worn smooth stones of the ancient wallhuge and never breached defense ringing round … More

#Grief, #Ireland, #Poetry, #Prejudice, #Race, #travel, #War, #WriterTuesday

Best Laid Plans (230 words)

I dreaded visiting Heels in O‘ahu Prison.  Not because of going into the prison, but because of having to see him. … More

#DetectiveStory, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterTuesday, death

Wha-da-ya Know? (140 words)

I explained to Chan how Eugene Kanai called a few hours ago, said he wanted to tell me something he … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #Mystery, #WriterTuesday

Books as old friends

I read you again, silent words and fading pagesturn them, weighing the paperthe memory of our first touchI close my … More

#Aging, #Love, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday

Elephant Santa

My neighbor has an elephant dressed like Santa up on his roof.  Every night when it gets dark, he plugs it … More

#Christmas, #Death, #Mystery, #ShortStory, #WriterTuesday

Movie Musing

He’s only a speck when he comes to town, before he grows larger, becomes recognized at the edge as a … More

#Movies, #Poetry, #Westerns, #WriterTuesday

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 21, It Was a Very Good Year

A one, and a two: When I was living Chapter 21, it was a very good year . . .  … More

#Hawaii, #Love, #Memoir, #Movies, #NaNoWriMo2020, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 14, A Petty Pace

I know this may be hard to believe, but there was a time once, many moons ago, when English majors … More

#Education, #Hawaii, #Macbeth, #NaNoWriMo2020, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 9, Doing Swimmingly

It was time, my parents decided, for me to learn how not to drown.  We live in Hawai‘i, so we’re surrounded … More

#Childhood, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Smoking, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 2, My Teeth

Two things I do know for sure about my first year on this planet.  One, I was an aggressive breast feeder.  This … More

#Dentists, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo, #Wisconsin, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

Chasing the Fat Man (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 20)

Chan asked what was up. “It’s a body.  They found it out back,” said officer Williams. Chan’s pulse quickened as the … More

#CrimeFiction, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #ShootingPool, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

When Will Rogers Met Donald Trump

Stuck here at home, unable to see my family anymore,lying in bed at night I think, with short, shallow breaths … More

#family, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #travel, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

The Fat Man (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 13)

Chan said simply that there were unanswered questions, but on the way to the station, he could see everything that … More

#CrimeFiction, #Drugs, #Hawaii, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

Time Lesson 7: Stop the Clock

Benevolent Time sat cross-legged on the mantle smiling,saying she’d push it over, her index finger often fakingflicking it, when, to … More

#Aging, #Clocks, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

Timing (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 6)

Back at his desk, Chan took a look at the files of some other open cases.  The one that concerned him … More

#CrimeFiction, #Death, #family, #Grief, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

Time: Lesson #1

I hear that gentle knock at the door, my teacher Time, again.She comes around, and we sit together on my … More

#Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

The Whys of Love (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Part 36)

“But why steal from old people the cars you use for the other old people to hit?” “Well, boss, maybe … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Love, #Murder, #Mystery, #WriterTuesday, Writing Prompt

Some Peace

I think about how I heard you rant at death for so long,then near the end ask for it to … More

#family, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

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