My Kind of Town
>> Ala Moana Beach Park Who was that woman?
Sen. Donovan Matsuda-Yee-Dela Cruz-Bishop-Kamaka was scared spitless as he jumped on the moped.
Damn, that woman was huge! Like some Hawaiian Amazon, 6 foot 4, 250 easy! And she was after him! She could tear him in two!
Keying the ignition, he glanced back. She was walking after him, beckoning, calling his name!
The senator sped away.
>> Three-way phone call
Shauny and her twin sister Fawn already knew about Lily getting pulled over by a motorcycle cop yesterday, and how he took her breath away, and she could tell he was feeling the same way, and then she gave him her license and he gasped.
The cop was her cousin Quinn. Until that moment they hadn't spoken in 21 years, since their fathers quit speaking when Lily and Quinn were 6.
"Nothing really happened until I stumbled and I was nose-diving into some rocks, but then Quinn swept me up, his arms were around me, and ..."
"And?!" Shauny, cutting to the chase.
"And we kissed ..." Lily left the word hanging there, lingering, as their kiss had lingered well past propriety.
"Oh ... my ... God!" Shocked and appalled, Fawn spaced the words in different time zones. "Lily, he's your cousin. It's not right."
"Hey, I was just reading an article about Ramadan," Shauny said.
"What?" Lily and Fawn echoed.
"And it's OK for Muslims to marry their cousins."
"Of course!" Fawn said. "It's because they're not Christians!"
>> Ala Moana Beach Park
HPD Detective Sherlock Gomes told Lt. Col. Chuck Ryan of how he'd been there to ask Dr. Laurie Tang about her boyfriend Sen. Donovan Matsuda-Yee-Dela Cruz-Bishop-Kamaka. While she went off to swim, he was getting in some swimming himself. Then the sub surfaced out of nowhere, lifting Laurie out of the water and she rode it to the beach like a cowgirl.
He was not going to tell him about seeing the goddess Ho'ola inside the sub, and how she just disappeared, and then they saw her later too.
That was too weird.
But he did tell Ryan that the lone occupant was a skeleton, the remains of a Japanese sailor believed to have been Shinjo Eiki.
Don Chapman is editor of MidWeek.
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