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Tag: #WriterFriday

An Aloha Shirt

Retirement had been half, half good so far.  The bad side was that he still had never established a routine … More

#FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #Relationships, #Retirement, #ShortStory, #TakingChances, #WriterFriday

Again with Hermione and Maurice

Please, love, please let’s not argue all night long about this silly little thing. I agree, yes indeed, we should … More

##FlashFictionFeb, #Aging, #Love, #ShortStory, #WriterFriday, Dating, Memory, relationships

Target

He watched the Buddhist monks practice their archery at Kapiolani Park.  They would draw back the bow string, close their … More

#Animals, #Childhood, #FathersandSons, #FlashFictionFeb, #food, #Hawaii, #Learning, #ShortStory, #WriterFriday

A Bad Connection

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 … More

#Changes, #FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #Love, #Marriage, #ShortStory, #WriterFriday

One Last Swimmer

David whispered, “Lanning, go back down the driveway.” “What is it?” “Just go, get to a safe distance.  Rodney, you cover … More

#DetectiveStory, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterFriday

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 … More

#DetectiveStory, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterFriday

Black Brown Yellow

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

#WriterFriday, poetry, politics, Race

Queen of the Supermarket

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

#Love, #Poetry, #WriterFriday

High School Buddy (100 words)

Eugene Kanai, my old high-school classmate, had wanted to stop by the office to talk.  It’d been twenty-five years since we’d … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterFriday

Miss Bianca

“Let’s go to Auntie Ruthie’s house.” “By bus?” “No, let’s walk.” “Walk!  But it’s so far.” “No it’s not far.” “Yes … More

#Animals, #Cars, #Childhood, #Mothers, #WriterFriday

Never Ever Let You Go

The choice, a desperate grasp of great consequence,a hand, cramped with fisted frustration, fingers straining,reaching harder than hard burned bricks … More

#Drinking, #Hawaii, #Love, #Poetry, #WriterFriday

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 24, All’s Well That Ends

1977.  It’s mostly a blur.  Sometimes when I try to recall the events of that year, it seems as if it were … More

#Birthdays, #Education, #Exams, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Wisconsin, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 17, The Man from Maui

Ho!  I bet you thought when I said I’d write about that other important 11th-Grade teacher later, you were wondering how … More

#Art, #Education, #Hawaii, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Teachers, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

November Song

I look back on them all long and longfor what I might have had in my mind’s eyesee red skirts … More

#Aging, #Love, #Memories, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 5, I Wish I Could Quit

You know how Mark Twain says that quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world, how he’s done it … More

#Childhood, #Kindergarten, #Love, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Smoking, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

A Memory of Dying

I can see us holding those little white pleated paper cups,smell the yellow pineapple cubes, icy cold, the perfect mid-morning … More

#Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

All Bets Off (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 18)

The crowd closed back around the table.  Chan saw it had thinned, many not wanting to be near him in the … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

The Gardener

I’m watching through the running glass window, an old one from 1926.I see my father, his figure slightly distorted in … More

#family, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Poetry, #Relationships, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Footsteps (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 11)

Father and son sat on the lānai of their Punchbowl home.  The sunset was one of those spectacular Hawaiian ones so … More

#CrimeFiction, #FathersandSons, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #Relationships, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Time: Lesson #5 (September Song)

RememberSummerCountryRockDiscoPop78Era / AndRecordsCassettesCDsMP3sWaiterPlease * * * * * Aloha #WriterFriday. Today’s #WritingPrompt is music Use it to inspire a piece … More

#Aging, #Love, #Music, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

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