Lemon Press: 142 books

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...

A girl attempts to make her father appear less threatening by dressing him up as a woman.  

Prose, Poetry, and Photos set in Prague and Eastern Europe.  

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...

A Memoir of Hawaii in Prose, Poetry and Photos.

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.

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...

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 him an unfair advantage. I figured the main reason...

  My father kept Granny’s diamond ring on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet in his bathroom next to a blue jar of anti-itching cream. I saw it through the glass shelf whenever I slid the cabinet open for toothpaste. The ring haunted me. It promised no shallow glitter...

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,...

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...