Sometimes a love doesn’t seem hardly enough

to get me through this world whole Sometimes it’s just enough to get me out of bedbut by midday I’m … More

My corn grows high

in five large black plastic pots on my lānai,watering, and fertilized with care,I am satisfied, bearthe slight tremorin my hands … More

I was maybe 15 minutes late. I ran up the stairs to the 3rd floor of George Hall and popped in the … More

When did the three weird sisters start hanging out together?Did they meet at a political convention, or at a grocery … More

My voice changing, leading to my having to retire from the Honolulu Children’s Opera Chorus, and therefore losing touch with … More

I’ve always felt that there are some books I love so much that I keep coming back to them despite … More

I struggled more with writing up this case than I did the last. Because I myself wasn’t part of the case, … More

I hear, see, grow the silence of the fields, the farmershaving retreated into their farmhouses as graves,the long acres of … More

It had always seemed ironic to Chan that the most mobbed-up pool hall in Honolulu sat a stone’s throw away … More

He had a baby once.He didn’t survive the pregnancy.Neither did it. Neither did she.A crisis back then. What to do, … More

Sure enough, there was a duffle bag in the locker. It contained three large bags of white powder. The next morning, … More

See here, this is her jigsaw puzzle, given to me early on, that from the firstI can remember, I began … More

Detective Stillman drove. Their first destination was the Oceanside Inn, a cozy little place two blocks mauka of Waikīkī Beach. Mr. Jose … More

I notice her here this evening, watch her closely, intentlylistening to a fly buzz and bump up against the screen. … More

Deciding it would be better not to do so, Chan did not mention to Yamamoto that Nina Goo had called … More

i.You grow a green world, have a green thumb, I see,and I gladly enter into your loamy scented Eden,hung with … More

Walking backward now I watch myself, my face reversedin the mirrored glass. I open it and turn the clock handsback to … More

“I wonder if I say his name whether he’ll walk through that door,” Nina said. “Sometimes I think it’s a kind … More

I can taste the salt on my lips I lick with my tongueconstantly my lips chapping and peeling a littlefor … More

David Chan asked the officer to let Nina Goo into the parking lot. “David, David,” she said, “what’s happened?” Chan … More