Chapter 21: About Bobby Stillman

Captain Delbert Kauhane, Chief of Detectives, called a meeting for three-fourths of the Hawai‘i Four-9 task force. He’d not invited…

Chapter 20: Discovering a Father

Sung-min Kwon did not understand what the man meant about his father having killed Lt. David Chan. Kang Yu could…

I wish this shave ice would cool mefaster, and I’m glad for the shadeof this massive old monkeypod tree. We…

When David Chan returned to the station, he found Sergeant Stillman poring over a file having to do with a…

Because he couldn’t afford the airfare to Wanhei, Sung-min Kwon walked and hitched rides when he could. All told, the…

Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, it didn’t matter. Any meal where Dr. Philip Tico and his wife Zelda were eating together…

As he rode the escalator down from the second floor, David Chan imagined what all he might do to one…

“Sung,” said Byung Yu, “that kink in my supply chain, I’ve not been able to handle it from over here.…

David Chan had difficulty focusing on the case file. He kept reading through the evidence and the witness reports, but…

He had never known his father. When his mother thought him old enough to know, she told him. He had…

Byung Yu was mightily relieved when Sung-min Wang called him the following day. He’d been concerned that the people at…

Let’s meet, you message, and she says sure,so right away you start mind-fumbling subjectsyou might discuss, things to talk about…

Miraculously, I have found enough wordsall month long to fill unturned pages turned,my daily worry, heavy as a dreaming child’s…

I watch the Midwest-style lightningjags rip from heaven to the ground,the lake ice exploding with the impact. Slipping on my…

More than 60 years removed now, so long ago,you are mostly ghosts now, but you were thengood news, big headlines…

Few apple trees will fruit this latein fall, but I do see a fewin the far misting distance,the children I’ve…

Every week we would receive a few cut-out albums,the ones with the notched corner and stickers sayingthey were not for…

I say again I have no funny family stories worth telling.Lots of families do, sure, and sure, some of minemight…