What I’m Looking For

What are the three things you’re looking for most in a partner? Hmmm . . . Well, I want to start…

Tell Me a Story About

So you’re sitting in a room with a blank piece of paper or a blank screen in front of you.…

She watched him every morning, very closely, waiting for something. He would sit slumped in his seat at the table. …

I am knocking at a polite volume and friendly speed on my neighbor’s door. This is the one in the apartment…

They entered West Towne Mall and Mrs. Goodman gave great thanks for the warmth. It was officially the coldest winter on…

I lay there looking up at what seemed like a bunch of wood and metal. I could feel things digging into…

He watched the Buddhist monks practice their archery at Kapiolani Park. They would draw back the bowstring, close their eyes,…

“So what do you think it looks like?” she asks. We’re head to head, lying on the grass, staring up…

In 1973, on the heels of him rocketing into the big name star echelon, Neil Young came to Hilo Town…

Mrs. Cho’s gift was guiding spirits to the afterlife. People who knew about her ability – and this was all…

I had to go back to the place on Maui where my father and I used to fish. Coming to…

When Art Kamaka was three years old, his father had drowned, along with two friends, while fishing in the Kaiwi…

Kwan woke to her neighbor’s rooster crowing. It was a welcome new sound these days for her. Other neighbors hated, she knew,…

The phone rang, distracting her. She was thinking about her husband, Harry. She looked over at the clock: 9:45. He was coming home later…

Hey! What are you looking at? Are you looking at me? Well, it sure seems like it. Not that I’m the only one here,…

“I want the red one,” said the little girl, pointing to it. Mr. Watanabe looked at it. Then at the other colors. All…

Robert Morgado did pest control. His father had done pest control, and so had his grandfather. When his wife said “Nuff already,…

It amazed him how long, after a tree died, was even completely rotted through like this one appeared to be,…

Even though the café was a small one, between cooking and running the front by herself, Asako was having a…

All those times you’d been togethernot holding onto you, sticking with you,how after all this can laughter heal you, evercome…