Hua 2022

Melancholy nights looking up at the night sky, waiting for the Hua moon phase to slowly advance over Hanauma or Molokai.

Garden 2022

His hands were large and meatier than most.

Insert 2022

Surreptitious movement is advantageous if you're the only person clearing a room and you've been cut off from your insert team.

Ticket 2022

 I've been going to carnivals all my life, from the time of the big tent shows to what passes for a festival these days.

Kaimana 2022

He plunged the knife again and again in furious anger.

Jumper 2022

When the story first came to me, I did not believe it.

Bloodlust 3 2022

 Kai sat newly minted in the casual circle of the Judd Society.

Bloodlust 2 2022

 Kai was the name of the initiate.

Bloodlust 2022

 Dressed in their finest, most expensive tuxedos, the old men watched as the new initiate received his indoctrination ceremony.

Mehameha 2 2022

 Rather than release me, they waited until I was asleep.

Mehameha 2022

 Stark white during what I could only assume was the daytime hours, and a subtle gray represented the evening.

Sleepy 2022

 End chairs and coffee tables flew across the living room, and the rug curled back and slid into the hallway.

Mū Hou 2022

Mū people, according to some sources, are not the Menehune.

White 2022

The time wasn't too long after the passing of Glen Grant.

Kinipopo 2022

 It was a muggy Saturday morning, and Devon's team was down by two points.

Bone 2022

It wasn't what I expected nor wanted, but what could I do?

Cry 2022

Terror struck the late evening visitors at Kāneʻīlio point at Kūʻīlioloa heiau.

Security 2 2022

The management and security left me to myself on the mezzanine.

Property 2022

The patrons at the resort eyed me closely, wondering what I, a Hawaiian man dressed in black, might have been doing sitting at a rich beachside property?

Church 2022

Growing up, a kid in our group didn't attend church with us on Sundays.

Move 2022

We lived in this house for more than forty years, more than a few lifetimes.

Kumula'e 2022

As kids, having lunch or dinner at the old Willows restaurant was a treat.

Alma 2022

We must be fair in addressing the Filipino plantation workers as well.

Hole Hole Bushi 2022

 Channeling Rockford Ota, a plantation worker from the late 1800s'.

Ventura 2022

70s' lore, you could call it.

Kilo 2022

 "The gods came from there," my grandfather pointed to the night sky while we sat on the roof of our house.

Ho'okele 2022

Gotta love my kids.

Milli 2022

Losing my wife Ella after forty years of marriage was hard for me.

Anthony 2022

 5:56 am.

Jeshua 2022

Jeshua Faleafine was the security guard at the old grocery store on Gulick Avenue in Kalihi.

Shitty 2022

 Even as I sit here, I question why I agreed to have dinner with a man I have nothing but contempt for, and yet here I am.