Hawai‘i Literature & Art
— Since 1978 —
Usually, I’m in Madison right now, so it’s appropriate I should dream of you, and you know how those dreams always shake me awake. I say, “You know,” as if you somehow did, seeing as I’ve never had a chance to tell you so. You’re still dressed in the white blouse and brown, pleated slacks,…
Tia Rosa warned me not to marry her son, but when my stomach swelled with something far greater than the weight of the sweet bread she forced upon me, I was not left with much of a choice. Anthony had grown more mild with age, his eyes and tongue and fists softening with the gradual…
His eyes were open, glazed and staring, as if his last breath had fogged up his corneas on the way out. I stood there, dumbly, hand on the car door, just looking in at him, like if I looked long enough he might blink back to life. Something dark seeped from his hairline like smoke,…
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