Hawai‘i Literature & Art
— Since 1978 —
Part One It was taking longer than it should for sister-in-law Maya to get her kids ready for the drive to Hilo airport after a week-long family visit. Lost socks,…
Garfield likes lasagna like I like lasagna, and while I can’t finish a full tray in one gulp, I can work my way through a good sized slab at a…
I wonder if local people Shudder more than others When they read Kafka’s Metamorphosis— You know the one where the guy turns into a cockroach. Local folks are afraid…
It looked like white rice— packaged with brown nuggets of karaage fried chicken in a bento box. Mom didn’t like its color. Dad said it tasted funny. Judgements made by…
Testing… testing ʻokina and kahakō Kaʻaʻawa and kūpuna Hōʻike da ʻokina and kahakō
It’s good for a local island boy to see life from somewhere else once in a while. Madison was an eye-opener, the whiteness of it all, snow for the first…
Okay, for August, it’s any length any style again. Here are the topics: 1. Write a 5-page monologue or 10-page scene based on this prompt: a confrontation between a person…