Old man Kang Yu had been a hard father to grow up under. He stressed education for his son, Byung. But it…
To See What He Had Seen — Part Four
Byung Yu sat open-mouthed, apparently nonplussed by this strange statement. Victor Yamamoto barely suppressed bursting out laughing. David Chan observed…
To See What He Had Seen – Part Three
Here’s my draft for today, Aloha Friday, 09.24.21 To See What He Had Seen — Part Three Captain Kauhane emerged…
To See What He Had Seen — Part Two
Chan and Yamamoto sat across from one another at their desks. Chan, bleary-eyed, watched his partner munch on a donut. Taking…
If You Build It Will They Come?
Retirement has brought many changes. Four years ago I began decorating my windows for Halloween. Never having done this, and…
From Dream to Dream
I believe I see down the aisle someone who dreams, by the black tights and leg warmers, of colossal success,…
The Gift of Quick Disclosure
She asked what it was before she unwrapped it. Do you ever wonder why people ask that about gifts?It’s as…
The Power of Prayer
She’d noticed that he spent more and more time reading the obituaries. Not that more people were dying, although Covid had…
Do You Remember? (An Old Car)
Listening to Neil YoungI saw your face in the fire.It took me back to Madisonand winter walks in the night.Remember…
The Rite of Spring
Spring came mid-March this year, the first day fallingon the same day I’d have headed for my annual Madison writing…
The Weight
The old woman sits in a beach chair, ten feet away from the fruit standShe wears an orange and yellow floral…
A Medical Miracle
For a long time now, when I’d be eating my cornflakes at the breakfast table, I’d keep thinking you were…
To Dream the Impossible Dream
Ever wonder if it’s spring’s choice to grow green grass and all those leaves and flowers?Or is spring coerced, preferring…
Odds Are
It’s best to be born mid-century.I was born in 1954, just a babe in the nuclear age.If you come in…
The Fabled Cliché
Never say a good or a bad egg.However, if there is an egg involveddo not ever assume it is an…
To See What He Had Seen — Part One
The phone call brought Lieutenant David Chan back from the dead. At 3:00 in the morning, it sounded, as he gradually…
Will
Will, more than ample to move your miraculous pen forward, versing out divine lines like lightning striking, always looking ahead…
So-So Funny
Students writing their PhD dissertations, that gobstruck time, wandering like zombies, as though they’ve been whacked on the head with…
Enlightenment
CAST Old McGann (MCGANN): A smart old cockroach who has learned all the survival techniques passed down over the last…
E komo/kipa mai?
It’s fuckin fucked up ovah here Everybody coming not jes for play tourist But fo fuckin live, permanent kine, like…
Lanning Lee 