Travel with Gonzo poet and flash writer KIRBY WRIGHT as he negotiates the terrain from Helsinki to the Finnish Archipelago to Stockholm, writing verse along the way. This book captures both the cityscapes of Finland and Sweden as well as the countryside of remote Aland Island, providing the reader glimpses of Scandinavia rarely seen by the average tourist. Some of the work takes on fantastical Kafkaesque dimensions and there are dealings with sensual ghosts in saunas and spirits wh...

Father takes off for Colorado to help get his 17-year-old son situated at CU in Boulder. The experience is agony for the son because he must deal with his father's stewing hatred of him. The interior world of father and son are explored along with the dimensions of their dysfunctional family, including a sister hearing voices and an older brother raging with sibling rivalry.

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 "Butterfly Season," who recalls a lost love in high school and beatings as a boy. The flashes drive this book foward with intense relationship moments as couples either battle the odds to stay together or throw in the towel. There's even a flash ba...

The boys have just been suspended from Punahou School and await their fate on the living room couch.What should be just another routine 'spanking' ends up as a runaway adventure to the south shore of Oahu, where the second son tries to sort out his differences with his controlling father and narcissistic mother.He knows he can't stay away because he is the shield between his kid sister and parents, the immovable object that keeps her sane.

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 brothers roam a paradise of fishponds, waterfalls, pristine valleys, and mountains with herds of deer. Jeff meets the Kahuna Woman who freezes pictures of her enemies, the TS who seduces the Chief of Police, the man who refs cock fights in Kaunak...

A collection of Nouveau Noir stories, many reminscient of Kafka.Some of the stories are set in the Czech Republic while others are set in Hawaii.There is a dreamlike quality to most of the stories, but others are realistic in temperment.

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 to reclaim California. Warlords battle private security forces for control of coastal towns.Power, gas, and water are luxuries. Hummers and Motor Coaches are obsolete. The internet and cells are inoperative. Wifi is history. Stores hav...

This collection of Kafkaesque miniatures offers a terrifying vision of the Worcester asylum where the writer's uncle spent most of his adult life. The asylum theme zips into overdrive in a series of sometimes darkly comic flashes threaded throughout the book. Dadio and June Spoon have created their own asylum in the burbs, one in which they 'incarcerate' their children within the confines of the home through guilt control, paternal manipulation, money, and demands bordering on the insane.

The poet attempts to channel Friedrich Nietzsche hoping to have the poet-philospher help him make meaning of his life as he adventures from Honolulu to Prague searching for answers. Along the way he discovers the thorn from his dysfunctional family and attempts to understand the memories that haunt him and hurl him to the brink of suicide.

A brother and his kid sister create a parallel universe in their own household to cope with a domineering father, a passive mother, and an indifferent older brother.

Keoni didn't look like his parents. His mother was so white she'd blister hanging out the wash. His father's face was as red as a tomato. Keoni was a husky kid with a baby face and an olive complexion. If he spent time in the sun, he just got darker. Keoni could polish off a dozen malasadas in five minutes and Ben said that proved he had Portuguese blood. Keoni seemed more sophisticated than my other clazzmates. He discovered a secret path through the kuku weeds from the rectory over to th...