AFTER ALL

I teach composition at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.I choose to spend as little time in my office as … More

Who’s there?

I can’t see you. Not like before, when I knew for sure, you were right behind me, always there. I … More

My eyes burning and blurry fixed on the Honolulu International Center arena where she’s with her family at a kung … More

I watch as the party rages on across the way. It’s now officially after midnight, and no one’s phoned the … More

I liked to gamble back then,had to have the perfect dealer,searched hard for someone special. With her I had a … More

EXTERIOR. ON THE BEACH AT KEKAHA, KAUAʻI, HAWAIʻI EVENING Four friends, BEANPOLE, BROWNIE, GOODIE, and PEANUT sit on the sand … More

INTERIOR, RADIO STATION STUDIO – MIDNIGHTRICHARD, the DJ, sits at a table in front of a microphone. ULYSSES, the guest … More

Maybe, he mused once, if it hadn’t been for marriage, he’d have ended up in prison. Once he met Beatrice, … More

It’s us sitting on a seawall.Maybe somewhere near Waikīkī.I don’t know.Great photo though.We’re both looking down and toward each other.We’re … More

My mom had a pretty good sense of humor. One time she bought a book of elephant jokes, and she … More

I grew up calling the neighboring islands of our state that weren’t O‘ahu the “outside” islands, and that big continent … More

I lay there looking up at what seemed like a bunch of wood and metal. I could feel things digging … More

Kwan woke to a neighbor’s rooster’s crow. It was a welcome new sound these days, for her. Other neighbors hated, she knew, … More

All those times you’d been togethernot holding onto you, sticking with you,how after all this can laughter heal you, evercome … More

She was having a hard time going to sleep, maybe fear of the dark and all those kinds of trauma … More

so if you can’t say every single wordthen try at least a word or tworemarking maybe howtwo neutron stars will … More

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

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 … More

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

I can hear the wind howl outside like the roar of North Shore winter waves back home in Hawai‘i. I shiver, … More