I remember calm nights at home,with pleasant conversation aboutwork, school, how the day went,the laughter and good cheer,very much a…
“It’s All Relative,” Episode 8 of my 5th Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery series, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.
Games
Most days you could solve the Spelling Beejust by looking at the 7-letter honeycomb pattern.Those pangrams were child’s play,and finding…
And More
My parents were good parents, allowing meTo lay the foundations of my literary fixation From an early age when they…
Learn Origami and Impress a Friend
Fold, unfold,reverse fold,run finger along crease,fold backwards,fold right upper right cornerhalfway toward left lower left corner,turn over,reverse fold,run fingeralong crease,fold…
The Next Chapter
The title of the second chapter will be,“Is Hamlet’s Will His Own?”Each will be a questionthat will be rigorously discussedbut…
How the Story Ends
We’re both in the Kupuna Program at UH Mānoa. They allow senior citizens to take classes for free. Now that…
Then
Back when Friday was for crazy, Saturday insanity,Sunday for laying in the dead, steamed like lobsters or clams,there’d come again…
Porta Bella
I see you always, a glass of red wine dangled in your hand before you,reclining luxuriously in an overstuffed chair,…
Confrontation (Part Seven)
Friday morning, Chris sat with Andrew and Allen on the library stairs. Chris thought about Denise, pictured a shimmering, translucent…
Confrontation (Part Six)
When Chris reached the field, he noticed a large man, maybe Hawaiian-Portuguese, sitting on the bleachers. He had a whistle…
Confrontation (Part Five)
On his way up to football practice at Farrington that afternoon, Chris looked for Denise, but she wasn’t waiting on…
Confrontation (Part Four)
On the third morning of the new school year, Chris made it a point to be sitting on the library…
Confrontation (Part Three)
The next morning Chris came to school early. He’d arranged to meet Andrew and Allen in front of the library. Chris was…
Confrontation (Part Two)
“Try stop, Chris, try stop,” said Allen, grabbing Chris’s arm. Chris looked at the small hand, then at Allen’s face.…
My brother Sangtiennoi not being there
A manwho has sweated many timesin his fighting careersays blood is only red sweat But nothing hurts morethan a mentorin…
Confrontation (Part One)
Chris Andaya had a stare so cold it might freeze fire. It wasn’t something he put on; it was natural.…
Broken Is Broken
Don’t pick up the pieces, put them back together,then tell me, Hey, look, it’s as good as new, all right?…
Love’s Not
Some primal urge to break abandoned factory windows with stones in passing,or to break a companion’s heart with hard words…
Cooling
In the shade, he sat enjoying his shave iceunder a banyan tree, the sound of wavesrolling on, the wrinkled ocean…
Lanning Lee 