Kirby Wright: 72 books

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...

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.  

A concise overview of the island to help you plan your vacation to "The Most Hawaiian Island" in Hawaii. Includes Ocean & Land Adventures as well as local contacts for Yoga, Mud Baths, and Hawaiian 'lomi lomi' Massage.  Focusing more on the east end on the island--the place of waterfalls, endangered rain forests, and ancient fishponds.  

  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 gets behind. He calls her...

A boy experiences life and death on his grandmother's remote Hawaiian ranch.  

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 school bully. In the world of academics, Jeff knows...

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.

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...

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 to take Imperial Beach. Warlords battle private...

See the little girl clutching the Teddy Bear? Take an excursion into her childhood to see how she was affected when her parents divorced.

Joe phoned Gramma and insisted Arlene have her own phone. "We're living in the Twentieth Century," he declared. Gramma thought that was extravagant. She offered to relay messages but Joe wouldn't hear of it. He paid for installation in the saddle room. "That's big money," Gramma...

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. A band sang “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”...

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 return address. This story is reminiscent of the...