THE DATING GAME

by Kirby Wright

Overview

My mother glided out of the house wearing a red beehive wig and a black dress I’d never seen before. It was as if she was sauntering down a catwalk. The hem of the dress rode above her knees. “Good morning, Andy,” she said.
“Hello, Mary. You sure look great as a redhead.”
She sashayed into the carport, her silver sandals clicking on the cement floor. “Did you bring any lunch?” she asked him.
“No. I’ll be okay. I don’t need to eat.”
I wandered over to the carport. “I’ll be driving to Jolly Roger around noon,” I announced. “I can get Andy a cheeseburger or something.”
“Yes,” my mother said. “It will be my treat.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011800092
Publisher:	Lemon Shark Press
Publication date:	09/29/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	15 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.