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Planes Over Honoluluby Stephanie R. Pearmain
The first time I boarded a plane to Honolulu, it was a one-way ticket and I cried most of the flight. I’d just turned 15 and while more than onc...
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by Catherine. Dube
The Red KiteMilo found a red kite tangled in the old mango tree behind his house. Its tail was torn, and one wooden stick had snapped. He almost threw it away, but something about its bright color made him carry it insid...
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Baby Vomit and the Pains of Single Motherhoodby Katie Harriman
I was sitting in the aisle seat. My mom, my step-dad, and my then five-year-old half-brother, Sean, were sitting in the row beside me. We were on a fi...
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Invading Hawaiiby Cory Emerson
I sit in seat 22F, the plane idling on the Tampa runway, my brain idling in my skull. I am assigned 22E, the dreaded middle seat, but a heavyset, elde...
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Devianceby Joe Bardin
While living in Tel Aviv, I received a call from a girl I’d had a weekend romance with in New York City after college. She invited me to meet he...
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Up, Up, and Awayby Sharon Kurtzman
For the last 16 years, my husband has spent about a third of each year traveling for business. The kids and I miss him when he’s gone and t...
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Returning to the Waterby Marisa Mangani
It’s August and I’ll be fifty in nine days. We’re at the Tampa Airport, checked in and sitting at the bar for a breakfast rum drink...
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Hawaiian Reservationsby Barry Basden
She flees on the first available flight. Still, her suite overlooks Waikiki. For days she stares out to sea and hikes the beach toward Diamond Head. I...
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