Nighthawks-Chapter 2 While waiting for her reply, the last call bell broke the silence, and the “leftovers” raised their brown stained fingers from the water-marked bar for one more. Downside…

“So what da buggah said?” ma madda asked afta ma fadda dropped me off. “About what?” “About what?” she said, mocking me. “How about what he promised fo pay me…

So what da buggah said? Coach said, “Can try again if I like.” You see. Can. No use. No can. I no can. Remembah da book, you used to like?…

There were six of us in that first group admitted to the Ph.D. program in English at UH Manoa. Two of us were local born and bred. I was the…

When you wish for something hard enough, you just might get it. Then comes the part about how hard you thought about what happens next, as in being careful what…

Next morning I’m hacksawing the x-brace separating the back seat from the trunk and measuring that space for an Army Surplus cot mattress, a perfect fit. Then the Salvation Army…

When you wish hard enough for something, you might get it. It was getting late, and I moved over to a barstool to tell her that I was in the…

Broken Wings You can find these people with broken wings who were once angels but flew too close to the ground touched the earth with tips of their wings and…

“Yessir, that’s the way it goes,” Dad declared. “Sooner or later come our turn.” Mom and Dad had participated in a graveside memorialization yesterday for a recently deceased neighbor at…

“So what da buggah said?” Rudy the barber asks me. “Some bullshit about Denise and Chris.” I’m waiting for a haircut. Out of the corner of my eye, I see…