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.

Paris Hilton and Lady Gaga are dead. So is the President. Psytrance parties rage as Palm Springs burns. Police and fire departments are gone. Marital Law is imposed to deal with the riots but the military is overwhelmed when Mexicans storm the border to reclaim California. Warlords battle private security forces for control of coastal towns.Power, gas, and water are luxuries. Hummers and Motor Coaches are obsolete. The internet and cells are inoperative. Wifi is history. Stores hav...

A concise overview of the island to help you plan your vacation to "The Most Hawaiian Island" in Hawaii. Includes Ocean & Land Adventures as well as local contacts for Yoga, Mud Baths, and Hawaiian 'lomi lomi' Massage. Focusing more on the east end on the island--the place of waterfalls, endangered rain forests, and ancient fishponds.

A brother and his kid sister create a parallel universe in their own household to cope with a domineering father, a passive mother, and an indifferent older brother.

See the little girl clutching the Teddy Bear?Take an excursion into her childhood to see how she was affected when her parents divorced.

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.

Rumor had it that Hoagie had already nailed three cheerleaders and was working on the girls in the Pep Club. Most of the girls and even some of the women teachers swooned whenever he walked by. I considered Hoagie a poacher. His age and status gave him an unfair advantage. I figured the main reason he’d picked Punahou was because of our girls. He’d dated Dawn Yamashita his first week on campus and Dawn cried her eyes out during a movie McQueen made the seniors watch. In the movie, this nai...

We got in the jeep and Gramma sped through the pineapple fields. She braked suddenly and made us get out. Ben and I picked pineapple after pineapple, until our pink suits were stained with red dirt. The jagged leaves of the plants cut my hands. Before leaving, Gramma flung our Easter baskets into the opposite field. When we got to the ranch she had us shovel manure and wheelbarrow in our suits until the seams split. She told us to stuff all our pockets with dung beetles. Gramma never washe...

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

Julia Daniels, a Moloka'i pioneer woman of mixed blood, invites her grandsons Jeff and Ben to spend summers with her at her ranch on the east end. She shares the ranch with Chipper, an alcoholic war hero with a life estate bordering the swamp. The brothers roam a paradise of fishponds, waterfalls, pristine valleys, and mountains with herds of deer. Jeff meets the Kahuna Woman who freezes pictures of her enemies, the TS who seduces the Chief of Police, the man who refs cock fights in Kaunak...

A father is threatened when his oldest son gets stronger and stronger lifting weights.He orders his son to quit lifting.The son retaliates in a way his father never imagined.

This collection of Kafkaesque miniatures offers a terrifying vision of the Worcester asylum where the writer's uncle spent most of his adult life. The asylum theme zips into overdrive in a series of sometimes darkly comic flashes threaded throughout the book. Dadio and June Spoon have created their own asylum in the burbs, one in which they 'incarcerate' their children within the confines of the home through guilt control, paternal manipulation, money, and demands bordering on the insane.