The music stopped, but we kept dancing. We could hear the melody going on, even though the musicians were packing up.…
Alone Time
“Gramma, come on. Next stop Zippy’s.” Sometimes I can’t believe I’m still alive to hear this. Every year, the same…
Politics over Friendship
Will we find that it’s fine, eventually, all by itself,that it’ll blow over with the passage of time, I wondered.Life’s…
Psst
You know that’s a word, right?It’s one of those onomatopoeia types.Those that come from a sound.Like when you’re trying to…
Real Good Poems
How hard should a reader have to work to get something out of a poem?Would digging a hole to China…
A Funny Bone Tickled Razor Teeth
The sea rises and falls helpless under the moon waves roll on their cover – in sunlight birds dove and…
Flight
It’s funny, I thought – on the non-stop to New York,staring out at the little pockets of light spread againstthe…
Episode #7 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform
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It Was Some Kind of Production
Spring was an adventure; we were learning the ropes.Summertime, a little easier going, working out the kinks.Fall ushered in those…
Yee-Haw!
Here we wooeee go, pardners, it’s the Wild West times, an’ the Wild South too, an’ the Wild East as…
Choice
The consequences of confused minds would have bound us in that spot. We’d just found majority, still too young to live…
One Two One
We park and she says nothing; it’s getting dark. I follow in her hunting, block after block, down one street,…
How Is It with You?
Sometimes it’s a straight line,the closest distance between two points.But it’s not necessarily a flat line.For some, yes, that’s true,…
Episode #6 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.
The Closest Shave Episodes 1 – 6
A Good Listener
I could smell it on him the moment he entered the room. Even more than usual. My eyes began to water. You’d…
A Quick Trip Home
My dad used to have them outside his den. I remember sneaking down there in the dead of night to…
No Ghosts Go Naked
If you ever see a naked ghostplease know you’re being had.No one has ever seen a genuine naked ghost.This is…
The Pattern and Order of Life and Water (for LY)
Wherever there’s waterthree atoms have formed a molecule of H2O,and on that molecular level this bondis the orderly arrangement of…
The Rice Eaters (for GB)
They sit bent over a creaking teak table top,this old pair aged out in days, near the limit,eating simple fare…
Looking As If She Were Alive (for Robert Browning)
The last meaning what? This guy.I’ve read enough stories, seen enough movies and TV showsto know that there’s always the…
Lanning Lee 