Barbara Hamby
Barbara Hamby has published five books of poetry and a book of short stories, Lester Higata's 20th Century, which won the 2010 Iowa Prize and was published by the University of Iowa Press. "The Lost Boys of Wai'anae" is a chapter from a novel set in Hawai'i during the 1960's. Other stories have appeared in Five Points and Boston Review, which published "Dole Girl," winner of the 2015 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest.
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Lost Boys of Wai’anae
The big news was that we had a college student from the Mainland as a summer missionary. The Wai‘anae Church was sharing one of its three summer missionaries with us. They kept Lorna McMichaels, a pasty blonde with thick legs …