The Growler

Here’s my rough draft for today, Saturday 01.22.22. I eat fast food maybe four times a year. When I do, Burger … More

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 … More

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

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

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

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

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

He’d never been big on lines, but this one he didn’t mind. It snaked back and forth between the stanchions … More

Her veined hand shakes as she grips the wooden bannister. The faint knocking at the door has awakened her again, … More

She’d noticed that he spent more and more time reading the obituaries. Not that more people were dying, although Covid had … More

It would be twelve more years before my father quit smoking. While he was no longer at his college fighting weight, … More

If it’s Saturday night, you can always find me at my favorite bar. The Watering Hole has been here on Hotel … More

The band, two guys on guitar, and the female singer, played four nights a week, and I came to hear … More

To say the package and note surprised him is understatement. He didn’t recognize the exact return address, but anything from … More

For two nights straight, she’s come in around 8:00. She sits down right in front of the stage. Immediately when … More

By the time she was twelve, she’d risen to the top of the amateur circuit here in Hawai‘i. Her parents, … More