Episode #9 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella Platform

The title of this episode is “Hiding and Dying.”

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I go downtown more often these days. Nostalgia. Chinatown was a regular haunt for me during small kid time. My…

The dream was so horribly vivid that I thought I was awake and watching the news on TV. A friend…

Eventually now, I see the whole wide world we knew,if we live long enough – I’m finding it’s so for…

It was up there somewhere, that ideal place where the dead waited for me.I learned about afterlife and angels long…

The trip down is always tricky in the dark. Have you ever had something to do, some minor task, that you…

The music stopped, but we kept dancing. We could hear the melody going on, even though the musicians were packing up.…

“Gramma, come on. Next stop Zippy’s.” Sometimes I can’t believe I’m still alive to hear this. Every year, the same…

Will we find that it’s fine, eventually, all by itself,that it’ll blow over with the passage of time, I wondered.Life’s…

You know that’s a word, right?It’s one of those onomatopoeia types.Those that come from a sound.Like when you’re trying to…

How hard should a reader have to work to get something out of a poem?Would digging a hole to China…

The sea rises and falls helpless under the moon waves roll on their cover – in sunlight birds dove and…

It’s funny, I thought – on the non-stop to New York,staring out at the little pockets of light spread againstthe…

The 7th episode of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform: https://t.co/JpDGhZjcGR

Spring was an adventure; we were learning the ropes.Summertime, a little easier going, working out the kinks.Fall ushered in those…

Here we wooeee go, pardners, it’s the Wild West times, an’ the Wild South too, an’ the Wild East as…

The consequences of confused minds would have bound us in that spot. We’d just found majority, still too young to live…

We park and she says nothing; it’s getting dark. I follow in her hunting, block after block, down one street,…

Sometimes it’s a straight line,the closest distance between two points.But it’s not necessarily a flat line.For some, yes, that’s true,…