First Works: A Collection of Short Stories

Kelly Kusumoto has published five short stories on various websites across the globe. In his first self-published eBook, he brings each of these stories together and also includes three previously unpublished stories from his archive. Tinderbox, his first published story, is about a young man who inherits his grandfather's secrets. 9102 follows as an homage to his Japanese/American family and their struggle during WWII internment. End of This World is a psychological cluster of imagination, as a man deals with a painful breakup. Death Cues brings billiards and a certain mythical figure together. First Hand is a look into a criminal's mind. 30,000 is a micro flash fiction piece on WWII Concentration. Broadway Junction focuses on subway preachers and Ben's Favorite Uniform is a children's story about bullying. Check out the early works of this emerging author who grew up in Los Angeles and is now pursuing a full writing career in New York City.