[Phantom Lover 16] • Pele's Fire

Kimo Wilder, Honolulu’s hottest kahuna, yearns for the simple life. He adores his husband, Lopaka, and their three rambunctious children, but sometimes he dreams of peace and quiet. When he and Lopaka watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on TV, Kimo becomes obsessed with taking it easy. He longs to relax, think about nothing more than having sex with Lopaka, and eating candy. He reckons he could have been a swell fry cook on Venus...

But Goddess Pele has other ideas.

After a frightening dream in which Kimo glimpses how his life would be had he never met Lopaka, he eases up on his workload and takes his husband out on a date to a local movie theater. It’s not something they normally do, neither is it a place they’ve frequented before. They encounter some unusual ghosts, which everybody but Lopaka can see, and a haunting that challenges all of Kimo’s notions of having a vacation...