This is the Last Time

Abstract

This Is The Last Time is an interconnected collection of flash fiction pieces, following a group of friends in Hawaiʻi and chronicling their separate lives and how they converge. With each piece told in the first-person perspective, these characters construct reality according to their own insights and fragmented narratives from the past while negotiating addiction, heartbreak, and the anxiety of isolation. As they attempt to mediate their lives through social networks and technology, the characters in This Is The Last Time attempt to confess and testify to their most intimate and revealing moments as they strive for redemption through the vulnerability that story-telling offers them, no matter how brief the opportunity.