Lemon Shark Press: 56 books

The 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 be cooked alive in an imu when the pond was complete....

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. Before leaving, Gramma flung our Easter baskets into...

  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 with alumni donations...

A father is threatened when his oldest son gets stronger and stronger lifting weights. He orders his son to quit lifting.  The son retaliates in a way his father never imagined.

The two sons of a Hawaiian attorney play a popular local game while waiting in the car outside Queen's Hospital. After a decade of infertility, their mother is close to giving birth.  The pressure of a third child is getting to the father. He orders his sons around as though they were his employees....

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 isolated beachfront off Puko'o Harbor. 

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 out of the covers, slipped it under the mosquito net, and rested it on my line. I felt the ocean's pulse through the cord.

A father and his second son have a conflict off the slopes of Diamond Head, in the haole district of Kahala.

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.

The two brothers in MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA and PUNAHOU BLUES resurface in this hunting episode set on the east end of Moloka'i island. Ben and Jeff are camped above Brownie's Gulch when Ben fires across Kainalu Valley at a buck. Jeff is about to discover the underpinnings of his brother's relationship with their grandmother. 

Prose, Poetry, and Photos set in China and Hong Kong.  

Jeff and Ben Gill learn the hard way how to row a boat on Molokai's high seas.  Their overly-critical father is reminiscent of Captain William Bligh.

Two brothers compete for their father's attention at their grandmother's ranch on the island of Molokai, a competition that takes the form of a fishing contest.

Here we discover why the older brother needs to defeat his younger brother at board games and how they understand the workings of their parents' relationship.