Richard is the Hero

Richard Nakandakari is the hero in all of his stories. He’s the storyteller, the events are his, he lived them and has a right to tell them the way they seemed to him, from the inside. Who’ll know if he rewrites the dialogue to make himself sound smarter, more insightful, and even as a youth, wise? Being humorous…

Ox to Tiger and Two Grammas: 709 words

I nevah met a language I nevah like. So I wen weave English, Pidgin, and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi into this piece. So much going on dis month. Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language Month), Makahiki Hou Pākē (Chinese New Year), and our usual recognition of ʻŌlelo Paʻi ʻAi (Pidgin) as vehicles of spoken and written expression. Sounds…

A Judge of Character

“Sir? Excuse me?” Ronald Ito turns around, sees it’s an older security guard. Close cropped silver hair, the kind of crewcut you inherit from your days in the military. But his military life is one he left long ago, it appears. He’s soft, beer paunchy. Ito is much younger, a former member of his high-school…

OPHTHALMOLOGICAL

We know about sparkling eyes, dancing eyes, laughing eyes, and eyes the windows, mirrors, portals to the soul, But what about tiny soul creatures (living secretly) within each dark (and private) eye? My great-aunt Helen had a voice like that, (a voice-within-a-voice), a Sarah Vaughn voice, a Vaughn Monroe voice. Eyes like that, multidimensional eyes,…

February 2022 Year of the Tiger Writing Contest

Aloha and welcome to the February Year of the Tiger Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest.  If you were looking for the February writing prompts, you have come to the right place.  This month is special.  In conjunction with Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Hawaiian Language Month, we are encouraging anyone interested in submitting contest pieces written in Hawaiian…

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