Lady 2022

 The gulch goes through the botanical gardens and then continues to lake Wilson where many a corpse of a young able-bodied Schofield soldier has been found.

Kaomi 'Ekolu 2022

Priscilla was only 46 when she was diagnosed with cancer.

Kaomi 'Elua 2022

Everything after that was so simple; we fell into a love that was already nurtured by a long friendship, and marrying Priscilla was a no-brainer.

Kaomi 2022

We were friends from the first time we realized we liked Power Rangers.

Haʻaloʻu 2022

When my son's marriage ended, I was there for him as much as he needed me to be.

Lingered 2022

 "Oh," the psychic shuddered as he walked into the establishment. "It's THIS place. I'd completely forgotten about it."

Lingering 2022

March 1979

Her name was Jennifer, and she'd been running the Club Miranda since nineteen seventy-six.

Linger 2022

We filled out all the forms, crossed, and dotted everything.

Lost 2022

 There's no way to get lost at the Kualoa beach park, especially when you're heading out to the campgrounds.

Phillip 2022

Twenty-five cents seems like something trivial to be bullied for, but this was nineteen seventy-six.

List 2022

Strangers owe you nothing, and you, in turn, owe nothing to strangers.

Sand 2022

Beach sand today is not the beach sand I remember as a kid.

Intrude 2022

They were armed to the teeth, but for some reason, with all the hardware they had, they came in with knives.

Remembrance 2022

Summer was only a month away, so the humidity had not yet arrived.

Massively 2022

Days are numbered in the way that time is numbered.

Kara 2022

We might still have time if we hurry.

End 2022

Sunday, January 13, 2018, at 8:07 am, a false missile alert was sent out to the Hawaiian islands.

Bullied 2022

Our fourth-grade teacher was uptight, horribly classist, and racist.

Malley 2022

We had to throw his clothes away and burn them and anything else he touched, stepped or slept on.

Place 2022

 Of course, from a child's perspective, the house you grow up in can seem like a grand mansion.

Site 2022

Of all places, a fast-food choke and puke shouldn't be infested with spirits.

Trap 2022

The comic book store was packed with back-to-back nerds in all shapes and forms.

Road 2022

My connections tell me that it's because of this built-up anger after the pandemic, this at a governor who prioritizes the people who lined his pockets rather than the voters who got him into office.

Parking Lot 2022

He's on the Young Street side of the parking lot, not trying to run away but waiting for me to catch up.

Restaurant 2022

The restaurant isn't anything special, but it's the one everyone goes to after a night of clubbing and drinking or after attending a concert.

Creepy 2022

 "Pounding on the door, in the middle of the night," the woman told me after the conclusion of one of our downtown walks through an old cemetery.

Awakened 2022

 This is another one of those stories where the free spirit comes into someone's life just long enough to change their mind and heart and release them from the constraints of a humdrum existence.

Defend 2022

John Grimes is a murderer.

Waiting 2022

 It's an old house sitting empty at the end of the road just before the Wiliwilinui hiking trail.

Kākau 2022

We bought the house in Kaimuki about three months ago, right near the fire station.

Aggressor 2022

Years ago, a fight nearly broke out at an eatery on Ke'eaumoku, particularly crowded on a late Saturday evening.