Although immersed at the moment in things Japanese, I took a moment to write a short fictitious satire on The Fourth of July based on an experience I had there. I posted it to Frothing Authors and immediately realized it deserved to appear here also:

The Fourth of July is one of the strangest holidays in no-man's-land Hawaii.

On the outside, Hawaii looks very America, USA, thank-you-very-much: American streets, American stop signs and street lights, American police, American English. Well, that...

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