My Last Stand-Up Gig

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

The Last Unopened Letter

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

would there and then the vast emptyacross the horizon your hand for mepass all yourself to here, your walkand stopto … More

It was winter break, which is a funny term for it here in Hawai‘i. I’d answered an ad in the Hawai‘i Star. A … More

I need to buy tennis balls, I thought, go upand say it’s a gift, because, you know, sir,I’ve heard they … More

Drinking alcohol was so easy now. It seemed like only yesterday, on a dull Friday or Saturday night, we’d be … More

I understand that scholars on the subject now generally can neither agree nor disagree whether Martin Luther, ordered to recant … More

One October when I was living in Madison, I agreed to housesit for some friends who were headed out of … More

When the call from Shanghai came, Chan’s adrenaline rush quickly died. “There was no tall woman in a mu‘umu‘u on … More

Last night I dreamed I danced on my Norwegian side.I’m ashamed to say, I’ve no idea what authentic Norwegian dance … More

On the way to the Moana, Stillman filled Chan in on the young woman found on the beach. She’d been raped … More