Trying To Figure

Lieutenant Chan had asked me to come down to the station so we could talk further about my housesitting for…

Paying Up (500 words)

We stepped into a living room decorated in rattan and lots of flower prints. There was another tall, fit Haole sitting…

I was sitting by the phone at 8:30, just in case the greedy bastard was anxious to get his $1000. But…

I’ve decided I’m old enough to saythat time does not heal all wounds.I know this because I’ve experiencedthe kind ofgriefthat…

Our guide seats us on the time worn smooth stones of the ancient wallhuge and never breached defense ringing round…

“I’m sorry,” David said, patting me on the shoulder. “Hey, we were old news,” I said. “Kama won Amelia fair and…

I had a feeling I was not talking to the most public-minded citizen, but I tried that tack first. “Instead…

Mrs. Soto’s dry eyes didn’t surprise me. A husband who cheats doesn’t deserve tears. If I’d ever been married and my wife…

A striving yellow slugleaves its fading iridescent trailcaught smack in the midday sunon a blazing concrete sidewalktrying its hardest and…

on a map we scana pinpoint we missangel almost headeddance so finestuck too throughfound unfoundout the other sidelost, no, lost,…

I went back to my office. Some woman was waiting. I was anxious to get to the bottom of Kama and Eugene’s…

I dreaded visiting Heels in O‘ahu Prison. Not because of going into the prison, but because of having to see him.…

when sorrow impossibly palesloss of what made sense and words lostcome untethered time and rhymeunreasoned rants in late day hazespeech…

I’m happy to say that my memoir is now available in both Kindle and print editions.

dance of souls swayhot ear to warm cheekbaffled sound of heartsrunning throughso small the body spacerclosing of emptiness betweenflesh and…

I gotta say, having looked at a thousand and one or more of these kinds of photos, that the guy…

I saw you just now at Safewayan angel working the register on Christmas day. Every time, like Laurence SterneI admire…

This is the kind of thing we did. Routine kinda stuff. Safe. Usually. I was working a suspicious spouse case myself. Guys cheat on…

Chan had a witness. It looked to the witness like the victim had been swimming and a woman had saved him…

I explained to Chan how Eugene Kanai called a few hours ago, said he wanted to tell me something he…