Here’s my draft for today, Aloha Friday, 09.24.21 To See What He Had Seen — Part Three Captain Kauhane emerged … More
Author: Lanning Lee
I write both prose and poetry. I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. I would like to see this site be one of comments and sharing of your own pieces. Together I hope we can grow our writing.
To See What He Had Seen — Part Two
Chan and Yamamoto sat across from one another at their desks. Chan, bleary-eyed, watched his partner munch on a donut. Taking … More
If You Build It Will They Come?
Retirement has brought many changes. Four years ago I began decorating my windows for Halloween. Never having done this, and … More
From Dream to Dream
I believe I see down the aisle someone who dreams, by the black tights and leg warmers, of colossal success, … More
The Gift of Quick Disclosure
She asked what it was before she unwrapped it. Do you ever wonder why people ask that about gifts?It’s as … More
The Power of Prayer
She’d noticed that he spent more and more time reading the obituaries. Not that more people were dying, although Covid had … More
Do You Remember? (An Old Car)
Listening to Neil YoungI saw your face in the fire.It took me back to Madisonand winter walks in the night.Remember … More
The Rite of Spring
Spring came mid-March this year, the first day fallingon the same day I’d have headed for my annual Madison writing … More
The Weight
The old woman sits in a beach chair, ten feet away from the fruit standShe wears an orange and yellow floral … More
A Medical Miracle
For a long time now, when I’d be eating my cornflakes at the breakfast table, I’d keep thinking you were … More
To Dream the Impossible Dream
Ever wonder if it’s spring’s choice to grow green grass and all those leaves and flowers?Or is spring coerced, preferring … More
Odds Are
It’s best to be born mid-century.I was born in 1954, just a babe in the nuclear age.If you come in … More
The Fabled Cliché
Never say a good or a bad egg.However, if there is an egg involveddo not ever assume it is an … More
To See What He Had Seen — Part One
The phone call brought Lieutenant David Chan back from the dead. At 3:00 in the morning, it sounded, as he gradually … More
Will
Will, more than ample to move your miraculous pen forward, versing out divine lines like lightning striking, always looking ahead … More
So-So Funny
Students writing their PhD dissertations, that gobstruck time, wandering like zombies, as though they’ve been whacked on the head with … More
Enlightenment
CAST Old McGann (MCGANN): A smart old cockroach who has learned all the survival techniques passed down over the last … More
E komo/kipa mai?
It’s fuckin fucked up ovah here Everybody coming not jes for play tourist But fo fuckin live, permanent kine, like … More
Photo Album
RandyIwalani LiaMickey Me MinnieLeina‘ala Robert RolandAlisha MeishaPeleMe Karen MRod RhondaEllen BettyPaul Karen LChris JonAudrey Me Kaori TinaMerle Snoopy JunkoAllison M … More
On the Way
We’d become friends back in elementary school,she and I waiting for our dads to pick us up,we’d sit on the … More
Lanning Lee 