The driver wore a black tank top. His arms were red and stained with tattoos. He pulled a rifle from behind the seat and slid the bolt action. He had on camouflage pants and a black cap with "Hanoi Hilton" embroidered in gold. An unlit cigarette hung from his lips like a fuse.Gramma came outside. "Any luck, Moki?""A'ole, Brownie," Moki said handing her the wire loop strung with keys. "Cades hea get all da luck."Cades put his rifle in the truck. He scratched a wooden ma...

The fishpond had been built in the 1500s by the king of Moloka'i. Before its construction, a man named Kilo had told the king that the work could not be done without the help of kahunas. The king said Kilo's punishment for this outburst was to be cooked alive in an imu when the pond was complete. Instead of worrying about his impending doom, Kilo organized the men from Moloka'i into a long line from the ocean up into the mountain. Stones were passed hand-to-hand down to the men building t...

A girl attempts to make her father appear less threatening by dressing him up as a woman.  

Here we discover why the older brother needs to defeat his younger brother at board games and how they understand the workings of their parents' relationship.

A boy experiences life and death on his grandmother's remote Hawaiian ranch.

Father takes off for Colorado to help get his 17-year-old son situated at CU in Boulder. The experience is agony for the son because he must deal with his father's stewing hatred of him. The interior world of father and son are explored along with the dimensions of their dysfunctional family, including a sister hearing voices and an older brother raging with sibling rivalry.

Two brothers learn a lesson of life and death on their grandmother's remote Hawaiian ranch.

A son's visit to M's Ranch House in Aina Haina with his father triggers happy memories in a relationship that has grown abusive.  They are there to celebrate Joe Frazier's victory over Ali in March, 1971.  

Prose, Poetry, and Photos set in China and Hong Kong.

This is the Memorial Booklet handed out at the Memorial Service for Harold S. Wright on September 4th, 2010 at Diamond Head Memorial Park.It includes the original poem "The Hurdler" as well as family photos.

A boy is suspended from Punahou School for cutting clazz and must face the wrath of his father. He runs away from home to avoid a beating and is taken in by a family in Waimanalo.

Ben and Jeff Gill are doing menial labor at their father's construction site on east end Molokai when Ben reports to the father that the heavy equipment operators are goofing off. One of the operators retaliates by cornering the brothers on an isolated beachfront off Puko'o Harbor.