Kiyoshi Parker

Kiyoshi Parker was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He shares heritages with two countries: America and Japan, and spends time between the two whenever possible. He taught himself Japanese in his late teens. He has some critical success as an author with his novelette, The Death of Death, currently available on Amazon. His other full length novella, Autonomously Yours, is also available on Amazon, and he is currently working on several more short stories and another full length fantasy novel. He enjoys graphic design, television, and film.

Updated June 2015

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Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest II

Alice and the Bear

  • Por Kiyoshi Parker
  • 13 Jul 2015
One splendid, breezy weekend in Los Angeles, a great-grandmother by the name of Alice Miyamoto and her family took a trip down to Little Tokyo. The joys, demands, and rigors of life had kept her away for more than 30 years, and so the trip was much needed. As Alice walked by shops and restaurants she was reminded of times past, when she was but a young girl—no older than her great-granddaughter—when she too walked these sidewalks long ago. There were myriad shops and restaurants, just like there had been when she was small, but they were a little newer—some a little flashi…

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Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

A Little Piece of Home

  • Por Kiyoshi Parker
  • 15 Dez 2014
My second cousin had been here for a week already and she still hadn’t quite gotten used to the way of life here. Her name was Motoko and she was visiting from Tokyo, Japan. It was her first time abroad, and, of all places, Los Angeles would be her first exposure to anything foreign. I’ve spent all fifteen and a half years of my life here and even I still hadn’t gotten used to it. It hadn’t helped that my big ol’ American dad gave her a big ol’ American hug as soon as he greeted her at the airport—she didn’t know how to react to it, so she just…

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