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Lanning Lee

Aloha and e komo mai. I'm an author of prose and poetry born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. I publish a daily rough draft here on my author site. Please read with me, comment, and please share your own writing. Mahalo for reading, and a hui ho.

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Month: February 2022

The Last Time

Mr. Fujimoto wheeled his gray trash bin to the curb and dropped it at the edge. Pausing, he looked down … More

#HusbandsandWives, #Memory, #StoriesfromHawaii, #Time, #WriterTuesday

Sugar or Salt?

We sat opposite each other, each stirring coffee in thick white cups, trying to cool it off. “Cream,” I said.  “Cream … More

#Love, #Marriage, #ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Dear Chris,

Thank you for your note letting me know you’d received the notice I sent.  It’s been a long time since we … More

#Love, #ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

The Honesty Policy

Albert could hear him stop on the other side of the door.  He sounded like an asthmatic, as if the exertion … More

#Games, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Short Short Stories

1. Death Wish Rendered unconscious by a fall in the bathtub, a president of Russia drowned. * * * 2. … More

#Animals, #Death, #Sex, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterThursday

That Long, Slowing Slide Home

If I thought I could do it faster, I’d be setting myself up for heartbreak.  But at my age everything starts … More

Each Journey a First

The idea is knowing I can go somewhere, and I amcreating the first pattern of steps no one has ever … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterWednesday

The Door Is Open

Alice was down on her knees scrubbing the kitchen floor when the doorbell rang. The kitchen floor always took a … More

#Disability, #HusbandsandWives, #Love, #Marriage, #MothersandDaughters, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

When Again?

The clock above his computer was a big one. Its tick, tick, tick could be ignored some nights, but not … More

#Companionship, #Love, #Sex, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterMonday

This Was the Way

I left you there for just a moment, at the forest’s edge, before we began our journey. When I returned … More

#Loss, #Love, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

The Thing in the Window

The icy wind swirled and cut at them like a knife that could slice a tomato paper-thin.  Stars shown above as … More

#Mission, #Mystery, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

All Those Miles

“Put ‘er there, pal,” he says, sounding as though he’s stepped out of an O. Henry story. I put my … More

#StoriesfromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterFriday, Friendship, Time

Episode 10 of my second Hawaiʻi-based crime story now available on Kindle Vella

Episode 10 of my second Lieutenant David Chan Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available on Kindle Vella.

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery

The Bibliophile

From the time he began college, he kept every single book he bought for every course he took. His library … More

#Books, #Death, #Reading, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterThursday

On Leaving

As porous as air, sliced Thin, I fall between See you way over there perhaps, or Not, maybe hear your … More

#Loss, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

The Packrat

People wonder how I became a professor. It matters little to them that I’ve published a dozen important books and … More

#Disability, #StoriesfromHawaii, #Teachers, #WriterWednesday

All That Glitters

He’d collected coins from the time his father thought he was ready to understand the hobby. “You see, David,” said … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #Hobbies, #Murder, #WriterTuesday

Guardians

Ala Moana Shopping Center is anchored, much like Sears and Liberty House used to do, replaced now by Nordstrom and … More

#Animals, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterMonday

A Pressing Need

If you hadn’t heard, I’m sure you could guess that living in Hawai’i is expensive.  Many people have two jobs, some … More

#Ghosts, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

One Day It Came to Him

Chris is meeting this grandmother and grandfather, Al and Sarah, for the first time.  This is also the first time he’s … More

#Grandparents, #Magic, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

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