The Lion, the Witch, and the Broomstick

He comes in out of the rain, slides off his lion’s head, grabs a beer, and leans back against the…

Committed to Memory

It is here now for a minute, that finger-drawn faceon the steamed glass is yours, ars brevis,fading as the warmth…

With her tousled white hair and shredded clothes, the elderly Japanese woman appears to be someone living on the street.…

When she had lost her job due to downsizing because of the pandemic, Michi imagined it was the end for…

Over the course of the pandemic, Carl had lost both his mother and his father. He’d donated most of their…

I’m happy to say that Episode 4 of my second David Chan Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available on the…

I think it safe to say, upon cool reflection now, long after the crimes we committed in our youth, that…

We’re off now, I guess, with your leaving here,since I’m pretty sure that ends whatever this was.O‘ahu is too small…

I always think it’s a dream, you know, that whole today is ending now,the clock ticking me up to midnight…

Each year of my life, from the very first timeI was conscious of believing it might be this way,I was…

Well this is easy, I think,reading the simple instructionson the small piece of paper inside the plastic bag.But it’s not…

This is the kind of weather where you don’t want to let your dog outside because you know she’ll be…

He wasn’t a mean man. The lack of emotion that everyone saw in him, was just that. He no longer…

It’s all the deep end when you take the plunge.No shallow end exists, as you well know.It’s like one of…

I’m happy to say that Episode 3 of my new Lieutenant David Chan Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available on…

The Police, I think about them all the time these days.This morning I’m standing in Starbucks,where they’ve removed the social…

Although we didn’t recognize each other immediately, we finally realize that we are acquainted. I don’t know what it is about…

As I round the corner, I hear accordion music. There, on a bench outside of Macy’s Ala Moana, sit an…

He’d read about why they put the chicken all that long way in the back of the store. It was what…

Say 60 years ago this morning, my sister and I would have been awake much earlier than sunrise, earlier than…