Lemon Shark Press: 56 books

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 about life and death at his grandmother's ranch.

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 the bakery and the memories, Gramma was leery...

Two brothers learn a lesson of life and death on their grandmother's remote Hawaiian ranch.  

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 yearbook. He’d told Bernie his nose was...

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 features an inner sanctum and haunts chock full of vampires!

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 matinees, rides on his father’s catamaran, and cheeseburger...

A son's visit to M's Ranch House in Aina Haina with his father triggers happy memories in a relationship that has grown abusive.  They are there to celebrate Joe Frazier's victory over Ali in March, 1971.  

A father accepts his son's challenge to tie him up so he can test his escape skills.  The son gets free and teases his father.  The father ties him up a second time and things turn violent.

A grandmother takes her two grandsons to the Grand Opening Luau at the Molokai Shores condo complex. The grandmother 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 attempts to rekindle an old flame.

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 rest home? Has father learned a lesson in empathy when...

A son sees his mother with another man at the Woolworth's lunch counter.

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.