The Perfect Price

“Like magic!” That’s what she thought, opening the package to find it was exactly what she’d thought about buying at…

If It Wasn’t for Bad Luck

I did not recognize Keola. If you’ve not seen someone for, say, 25 years, you might have little difficulty recognizing…

I’m not into tattoos. The first thing I ask a woman who’s interested in taking a relationship further is if…

In my trips to China with my Qi Gong master, I’ve been able to visit places even many Chinese have…

There was no escape. Time and tide, they say, but collectors are the same in that respect. They do not…

Chris had no idea his father knew something about formal Filipino weddings. His father had warned him that not all…

“So, I read your papers,” said Mr. Yang. “How many times do I have to tell you, folks, never to…

Thinking I don’t feel like anything’s slowing down for meyet, bolting out of a house of wood and stone, gonefrom…

Besides roach and ant traps, this time Alika added rat poison. He’d started hearing them at night. In between the…

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.– Susan Ertz This…

Shouldn’t everyone who attends a high school class reunion, he thought, have something interesting to talk about? Don’t we all…

Lia would drink a bottle or two of wine whenever that passion dwindled down for a time these days. It’s…

It had been a while. She sat there like a little jewel, the sun sparkling on her back when he…

Back in the day, when he figured he’d never be one of the victims, he’d duck into Safeway, 7-Eleven, or…

They drove all day. As the moon rose, under its glow, they could make out nothing but flat, empty land…

They weren’t friends. Let’s call them acquaintances. Maybe. They’d done business together for several years, now, and today’s meeting had…

“I will travel more as I’m able to do so,” Lehua said to herself. It was like a mantra some…

It began one Saturday morning when his mother had been drinking coffee and reading the paper at the breakfast table.…

The two took a table, their old table, in the Coffee Stop. It was one establishment that had survived the worst…

I’ve sold everything from houses in Kāhala to potato peelers and vacuum cleaners. You saw Lucille Ball as a saleswoman tossing…