THE WHITE STALLION

by Kirby Wright

Overview

Gramma had told me about April Fool's Day in 1946. That was before the civil defense sirens were installed, when news of danger came by way of Maui radio. "This is the real McCoy," the newsman reported as waves swept through Hilo. The water in our harbor receded—it was as if God had pulled a plug out of the bottom of the ocean. The reef appeared and the channel between Moloka'i and Maui became a valley of sand. "Crabs runnin' and ulua floppin'," Gramma'd said, "and fullas runnin' to get um." Gramma and Chipper had the beach house and a cottage. Chipper freed the horses while she drove her truck east to warn her friend Sarah Naki. She stopped to free a white stallion roped to a stake and spotted a blue mountain rolling off the ocean.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011921179
Publisher:	Lemon Shark Press
Publication date:	11/08/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	10 KB

About the Author

Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Jodi Stutz Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Robert Browning Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE THE CITY, his first poetry collection, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. Wright is also the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA’I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. He was also a Visiting Writer at the 2010 Martha’s Vineyard Residency in Edgartown, Mass., and the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic.