The Mad Dog

THE MAD DOG
a story and illustration by John Shklov

Three years after the dog bit me, my friend “portagee Bob,” told me a story that made my hair stand on end. By the time I heard the news, the incident had long passed from my mind [...]

We are all Raptors

Images and Words: Copyright: John Michael Shklov. Kapaa, 2007

The Dead Dog

 
The Dead Dog
Even though the mother Kalena was a Rottweiler mix, the puppies all were born looking exactly like the father, a good looking, blond colored American Staffordshire Terrier, (commonly known as a Pit bull) with a sweet disposition . This was Kalena’s last litter; the last before the Vet tied her tubes so she [...]

It was love fur shure!

Images and Words: Copyright: John Michael Shklov. Kapaa, 2007

A FLIMSY TOWER OF NUMBERS

A FLIMSY TOWER OF NUMBERS

Toshi had a regular route around the Honolulu campus. My office at the East West Center Communications Institute was at his mid morning point, one of half a dozen or so his stops around the University. He usually perched on the soft leather chair at my office, waiting, the stop [...]

Work Shall Make You Free

Work Shall Make You Free
a story and a picture by John Shklov
Lisa Unter was a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz death camp. Wizened, hunched, arthritic and at the very end of her long life she settled on Kauai.

When I first met her she was 80 something. [...]

SOVEREIGNTY

 
SOVEREIGNTY
She was a big girl. Sunny Keawe was built like a Polynesian goddess. A Hawaiian Queen Latifah, being part Samoan and part Hawaiian and raised in Waianae out in the country on a high protein diet, on canoe practice and hula.

Her curves were large and generous no less woman-like for their size and [...]

It was a perfect day in Hawaii /w illustration

 
It was a perfect day in Hawaii.
It was a perfect day in Hawaii. The sun was bright and the electric blue sky was clear. Sparkling highlights from the waves off Diamond Head bounced in the distance. From my vantage point high over Honolulu on the [...]