We age this way, acquired lives,word by word, each learned, howtraditions grow, by nature we come to beself-practiced tellers of…

Johnny Carson, television talk-show host and stand-up comedian, famously was often caught sneaking drags of a cigarette after coming back…

He always introduced himself as such, but if you stopped to think about it, David Chan III did not look…

I’d just been in Shanghai a month earlier.  There, most people know what decaffeinated coffee is.  Here in Seoul, fewer seem to…

Let’s drink a toast to halves wholed,one round perfect sphere of ustwo magnetic in our pull to one,toward a singularity,…

Chan’s superiors deemed it necessary, so he was assigned mandatory sessions with the department shrink.  They said they were worried about…

“Eventually, everything will be funny.” We were eating breakfast in the Palmer House. “It’s no gimme, it won’t just happen.”…

It did not surprise him, this sea of black suits, pouring out of the Methodist church doors.  The limos and Mercedes…

the sound of water may always be the sound of waterthe sound of wind, windbut the sound of silence is…

It surprised no one, given Victor Yamamoto’s active dislike for people, that the church was nearly empty.  Present were his mother…

Oh yes I do, I do understand you now,and I believe.  Don’t you hear that scratchof my pen, running wild and…

“Uncle Snuff, why so shocked?  We all knew there’d be a vacuum to fill once Byung and Jason were dead.  Richard Han…

“I think we’ll postpone the exam. Instead of Friday, we’ll have it Monday.” There was a general collective groan. “That…

The two met at Kang Yu’s Kahala Beach estate.  They sat out back, under a nearly full moon, sipping whiskey. “In…

We who hold the bait, tempt you, wait for you, blind,to sniff the air, reach for it, then we withdraw…

Victor Yamamoto was hardly an enigma.  That he was sour on life was well known.  Everyone assumed that much of his attitude…

Images of his son and grandson passed through Yu Kang-Ho’s mind. “Who?” he asked. “Victor Yamamoto killed Jason.  Byung took care…

We are nervous for always meeting nowwith not much more soothing music, we tryto fill the awkward moment that comeswith…

With the war ending and the threat of a nuclear holocaust dancing in their heads as the Cold War came…

I was in 4th-grade, old enough to know what death was, but not enough to know what it meant, I…