Kimo Wilder, Honolulu’s hottest kahuna, longs for the simple life. He adores his husband, Lopaka, and their three rambunctious children, but sometimes he dreams of peace and quiet. When he and Lopaka watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on TV, Kimo becomes obsessed with taking it easy. He longs to relax, think about nothing more than having sex with Lopaka and eating candy. He reckons he could have been a swell fry cook on Venus…only Goddess Pele has other ideas.
After a frightening dream in which Kimo glimpses how his life would be had he never met Lopaka, he eases up on his workload and takes his husband out on a date to a local movie theater. It’s not something they normally do, neither is it a place they’ve frequented before. They encounter some unusual ghosts, which everybody but Lopaka can see and a haunting that, well…challenges all of Kimo’s notions of having a vacation…
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Pele’s Fire
Copyright © 2011 A.J. Llewellyn
ISBN: 978-1-55487-901-4
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Pele’s Fire
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A.J. Llewellyn
Dedication
To Becky and Haleiwa Joe who first told me about the haunting that inspired this tale. Thank you for allowing me to borrow your experience. Kimo and Lopaka are grateful.
And:
To my awesome Facebook pals who provided me with the fodder for Kimo and Lopaka’s children and the TV shows they would probably watch. Thanks to Amber Kell, Kelly Sutherland Cassell, Phoenix Hell, Kei Sama, Lynn Cooper-Baker, Arzu Aydemir, Elisabeth Staab, Erin Sinclair, Nichelle Gregory, Patricia Logan, Stacie Lindsay, Saranna de Wylde, Vheeance II, Aleya “Allie” Thomas, Rebecca Leigh, Stacy Wilson, Louisa Bacio, Victoria Reyes, Cynthia Bégin, Silvia Violet, Mahalia Levey, Tamara Tel-va and Shelli Rodgers.
Thank you all!
Chapter One
I knew it was a dream, but even though it was, events unfolded, it seemed to me, in real time. Believe me, even as I dreamed it, I knew it was weird and fanciful, but then who among us controls our dreams? I found myself in Starbucks in Waikiki. I’ve lived in Waikiki for most of my adult life, my childhood having been spent on the Big Island of Hawaii. I moved to Waikiki before there even was a Starbucks. I feel safe in saying I was one of the first patrons there since my bachelor pad, a studio apartment in a high-rise tower on Kalakaua Avenue, was right around the corner.