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Kirby Wright
Books in Order: 76 titles
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The Wounded Morning
This collection of flash and poetry explores the secret interior worlds of characters dealing with intense emotional landscapes. Some of the pieces flash back in time to reveal the underpinnings of feelings of inadequacy, such as the narrator in "But...
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Square Dancing at the Asylum
The author wishes to thank the editors and staff of the following publications in which some of these works first appeared or are forthcoming: Arabesques Review, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, B: an Anthology of Barbie Poems, Bayou Magazine, Black Hear...
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The End, My Friend
Paris Hilton and Lady Gaga are dead. So is the President. Psytrance parties rage as Palm Springs burns. Police and fire departments are gone. Martial law is imposed to deal with the riots but the military is overwhelmed when Mexicans storm the border...
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California
The world is self-destructing, and that means major chaos in California.Join Tony and Evo as they quest for safe haven in a world that suddenly has no rules. Their fight for survival takes them from the Southern California coast into the desert. If...
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BURT & THE CHRISTMAS TREE
Burt loves his Christmas Tree but leaves it up past New Year's because it's not dropping any needles or drooping. Months go by and, instead of wilting, the tree sends out bouquets of new green shoots. Burt helps the tree by putting in a bubble skyl...
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CAT IN A SQUARE OF LIGHT
These stories straddle the fence between the real and the unreal, in that gray zone between dreams and reality. Some of the stories are fables or have fabulistic qualities. Others are Kafka-like minatures utilizing dark comic tones in settings as d...
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The Punahou Prom
Laura took my arm and I escorted her through a foyer of potted palms and paintings of whale hunts off Lahaina. There was also a painting of Captain Cook's arrival on the Big Island-outrigger canoes in Kealakekua Bay surrounded the HMS Discovery....
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Scrap at Puko'o Fishpond
The conflict between a father and his son takes a turn when the father infuriates a local and gets attacked. The son is torn between his dislike of his father and, at the same time, wanting to protect him....
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BUCK SUMMER
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Pacific Rim, grade: A, San Francisco State University, language: English, abstract: An older brother is determined to shoot a buck during his summer on Molokai island in order to prove he is ...
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MORE GUTS THAN BRAINS
A son figures out his father's psychology during the closed circuit Fight of the Century between Ali and Frazier. He wonders if the cruel treatment his father received as a boy has anything to do with the way his father raised him. ...
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THE GREAT ESCAPE
By juxtaposing haole family life in the Kahala suburbs with an extended Hawaiian family living in Waimanalo, THE GREAT ESCAPE reveals the father's warden-like rule over a loveless family as well as the struggle his sons face as they move into their t...
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MADE OF IRON
Critics of PUNAHOU BLUES wondered if there was a chapter after Laura and Jeffrey reunite at the prom. There was. This chapter set in Colorado was discovered yesterday on an old computer that functioned only long enough to download the file in Applewo...
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MOLOKAI FISHPOND
Puko'o Fishpond had been built in the 1500s by the king of Moloka'i. Before its construction, a man named Kilo had told the king that the work could not be done without the help of kahunas. The king said Kilo's punishment for this outburst was to b...
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THE PUNAHOU CARNIVAL HAUNTED HOUSE
The Junior Class at Punahou School must think of a way to revive interest in the Haunted House, an attraction that was forced to close down in earlier years because of a lack of interest from carnival goers. What to do? How about a house that feature...
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PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, Part 5
Tony gets a full tank courtesy of Blondie and heads north along PCH. He stops in Pismo Beach to check out the Kon Tiki Inn and discovers a radically different place that he remembers, including the former owner who's gone off the deep end. Tony and E...
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TRUST, a Story of Love & Shotguns
An out-of-work New Yorker takes an excursion into a fantasy world where his hottie girlfriend is having office sex with her boss. He convinces himself she wants him dead after he receives a box of shotgun shells by way of UPS, in a package missing a...
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CRAB NEWBURG IN ZOMBIELAND
These dreamscapes explore the places of in-betweens, the gray zone between life and death, living and dying. Would father make love again to his wife's best friend, even though she's become a zombie? Why is Gramma chasing the narrator out of the re...
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PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, Part 4
The utopian-calm of Nirvana is shattered when 3 strangers arrive on Harleys in the dead of night. Their confrontation with Dave and Tony turns violent. Tony and Evo are forced to flee for the coast of Southern California, with Oregon being their ulti...
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PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, Part 1
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...
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PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, Part 2
Evo wants Tony to drive to the coast for a last look at the ocean before they head to Crestline. They discover anarchy along PCH and on Carlsbad Beach. Tents are clustered on the marshes, with the lagoon serving as a moat to keep danger out. A man ho...
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PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, Part 3
Tony and Evo continue their trek east from Owl through the burning neighborhoods of Palm Springs, where looting is the norm and Psytrance parties rage. The street lights are out but the date palms burn like torches. Tony trades gas for an emerald nec...
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BEFORE THE CITY
This collection of award-winning poetry helped earn the poet a seat on the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong. Includes winners of the Anne Fields Poetry Prize, the American Poets Award, and the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Mon...
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THE EAST END RODEO
Jeff and Ben Gill are out to please their grandmother by catching the prize in the Greased Pig Contest at the East End Rodeo.Later, Jeff learns an important lesson on life and death at his grandmother's ranch. ...
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KILLAHAOLE DAY
In sixth grade, Iʼd witnessed the Killahaole Day fight between Ben and Rickyʼs gang. Theyʼd trapped him on the gravel road behind the thrift shop. The shop was closed. At first it didnʼt seem serious -- just a group of Catholic boys in white butt...
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LOOK WHAT THE EASTER BUNNY BROUGHT ME
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. B...
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LUAU AT THE MOLOKAI SHORES
A grandmother takes her two grandsons to the Grand Opening Luau at the Molokai Shores condo complex. She crosses paths with her ex and the grandsons try to get them back together.The younger boy meets his ex-girlfriend from Punahou at the luau and he...
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THE NIGHT OF PUANANI
The two brothers Ben and Jeff are teenagers on Molokai and lonely staying on their grandmother's isolated ranch. Puanani and Big Ruth, two cute local girls, sneak over to the grandmother's beach house around midnight to keep them company. ...
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PAKALAKI MEMORIES
My father had decided on the Young Hotel because of Gramma's weakness for sweets. The hotel boasted the best bakery on Oahu. He also figured she had a nostalgic interest in that hotel because she'd jitterbugged with Alan Ladd in its ballroom. Despite...
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THE POI DOGS
We got the ball first in the second half and George hit his two-hand set shot to increase our lead. We traded buckets with the Fantastic Five for the first ten minutes. A Twinkie elbowed me in the cheek when I tried dribbling past him and I lost the ...
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THE PUNAHOU CARNIVAL
By the spring semester, junior high boys and girls were beginning to pair up. The catalyst for these love matches was the Punahou Carnival, the biggest and best on Oahu because of its rides, food and game booths, and a white elephant tent stocked wit...
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THE PUNAHOU SCHOOL PROM
Laura took my arm and I escorted her through a foyer of potted palms and paintings of whale hunts off Lahaina. There was also a painting of Captain Cook’s arrival on the Big Island—outrigger canoes in Kealakekua Bay surrounded the HMS D...
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THE RETURN OF WILKINS
He parked on the slope next to Gramma's jeep and opened his door cautiously. Leo and Spotty circled the Datsun and sniffed the tires. Wilkins climbed out. His hair was silver and slicked back. He wore a white suit with a blue tie and carried a grocer...
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TELLING FUTURES ON MOLOKAI
Gramma shuffled the cards and Ben cut twice. She made three piles. She placed the pile that came from the bottom on top and gathered up the other two. She smacked down a pair of queens and surrounded those with eight more cards. She lit a Chesterfiel...
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THIS OCEAN'S CHANGING
I slept on the makai side of the lanai. The kaka lines were tethered to the beach house and the moon made them glow as they moved up and down with the tide. These were our umbilical cords, linking us to all the mystery in the ocean. I took my foot ou...
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THE WHITE STALLION
Gramma had told me about April Fool's Day in 1946. That was before the civil defense sirens were installed, when news of danger came by way of Maui radio. "This is the real McCoy," the newsman reported as waves swept through Hilo. The w...
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THE DATING GAME
My mother glided out of the house wearing a red beehive wig and a black dress I’d never seen before. It was as if she was sauntering down a catwalk. The hem of the dress rode above her knees. “Good morning, Andy,” she said.ȁ...
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THE ENCHANTRESS
Lisa bounced in her saddle as Sparkling Eyes pranced over the lawn. She looked foxy in her red tank top and jeans. She was going to be a senior at Punahou. Lisa liked Ben and me because we always had a horse saddled for her. She looked nothing like h...
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THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY
I knew Wayne could hurt me if I didn't keep my gloves up and elbows in. But he was tiring too. I glanced past the top hose and saw Chip Morningstar and Bernie Fredman. Wayne had made it his annual tradition to write "To a Real Panty Waist" in Chip's ...
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THE KAHUNA WOMAN OF MOLOKAI
Two brothers head east to Honouliwai Bay with their grandmother to meet a woman who has the power to cast spells and who can see the ghosts marching over the mountain down to the sea. She speaks of islands appearing at sunrise and disappearing by su...
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LUCKY PUNCH
Ben and Jeff Gill are doing menial labor at their father's construction site on east end Molokai when Ben reports to the father that the heavy equipment operators are goofing off.One of the operators retaliates by cornering the brothers on an isolate...
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THE POACHERS
I knew Ben had been waiting for this day, the day he could match deadly force with deadly force. He'd just seen William Holden in The Wild Bunch and loved how Holden was willing to fight to the death for a noble cause. Ben's noble cause was protectin...
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PUPULE WITH DESIRE
The first day of eighth grade was the worst day of my life. Debbie Mills, the girl of my dreams, was in the courtyard outside Bishop Hall holding hands with the school bully, Wayne Braswell. Ben told me Wayne had treated Debbie to a summer of matinee...
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THE TRAIN FROM CHICAGO: A Collection of Sudden Fictions
Grandpa rarely phones. When he does, he doesn’t ask to speak to me. I know long distance is expensive. Sometimes my mother sends secret money and there is always a few hundred on Christmases and birthdays. He said the money saves him when he g...
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UNCLE CHIPPER of Molokai
Chipper lost his wife and his land. He built a small house and teenage wahines and paniolos from Pu’u O Hoku Ranch frequented his luaus. The house was his outpost and he saw himself as the leader of a defiant tribe on the ranch he once owned. ...
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ROW LIKE A WAHINE
It appears Jeff and Ben are having a blast on the old wooden boat fronting the Beach House on Molokai island. Things are about to change as their father is planning a lesson in discipline on the High Seas....
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ABANDON SHIP
Eighth grade ended when the mythic stream shifted its subterranean path and pooled beneath Bishop Hall. The building moaned during my History class and the Diamond Head side sank six feet. Fire alarms sounded and everyone evacuated. We all congregate...
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THE DRUG CLUB
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 ...
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THE HANGING TREE
The driver wore a black tank top. His arms were red and stained with tattoos. He pulled a rifle from behind the seat and slid the bolt action. He had on camouflage pants and a black cap with "Hanoi Hilton" embroidered in gold. An unlit...
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UNCLE BOBBY
John Danford was Gramma's second lover and the father of my Uncle Bobby. Danford had competed with Duke Kahanamoku in surfing, outrigger canoeing, and rough water swimming. He'd beaten Kahanamoku only once, in an unofficial swim sprint at Alakea Slip...
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MOLOKAI BOY
Forget pretty Hawaiian rainbows, expansive tropical beaches, and warm water. Here, on the remote east end of an island, you get a grandmother who boils her teeth and burns horses. You get the feeling this isn't the place advertised by the Haw...
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Moloka'i Nui Ahina: Summers on the Lonely Isle
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 br...
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Punahou Blues
Growing up in Honolulu isn't all it's cracked up to be for Jeffrey Gill. After he gets into prestigious Punahou School, his rite of passage includes losing the babe of his dreams to a creep, surviving Killahaole Day, and getting pushed around by the ...
