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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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