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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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Category: Animals

Circus

As a child he’d attended the circus once, and once only.His parents, he imagined, must have seen it as a … More

#Animals, #ParentsandChildren, #Violence, #WriterMonday

It’s Wednesday, it’s raining, and the dog needs to go out.

Billie – I’ll call her Billie – sings her soft blues now,not a bark or a howl, but a throaty, … More

#Animals, #Companionship, #Mystery, #WriterWednesday

Quid Pro Quo

The blackbirds are too many nowand fierce today. Even thoughI hurried to hang the laundry on the linebefore the sun … More

#Animals, #Food, #WriterSaturday

A Guppy’s Dream

My pond’s overrun by guppies again, and at perhaps 2000 gallons, it’s not a small one. . . . a … More

#Animals, #FathersandSons, #Learning, #WriterFriday

Gray Dog (Loving Pets)

The dependance uponwhat a great deal her life lenta small gray dogthere a statue nowstanding over her asheshonoring herafter Greyfriars … More

#Animals, #Pets, #WriterSunday

So Much up in the Air

Nothing much gets the old adrenaline going now, but even if you’re tired, you know, you have to force yourself … More

#Animals, #TV, #WriterTuesday, Aging

Doris

Adopted 15 months ago by completechance meeting. A Humane Society rescuefrom an abusive environment, she’s alwaysthere for me, my baby … More

#Animals, #Companionship, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

The Beast

Rolling down his window, “Beware,” he said. “There is some beast in there. These old houses. It’s easy for them … More

#Animals, #Fear, #Mystery, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

What the Cat Typed

I jolt awake in the dark.Well, it would be dark except my computer,as have I, has come out of sleep … More

#OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday, Animals

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

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

Pretty Bird

I don’t see them displayed in tiny cages at restaurants and stores anymore, the way I remember them, confined and … More

#Animals, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Fair Game

The hole in the snowbank was deep, and as I peered into it, I imagined I was looking at some … More

#Animals, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Winter, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

Undulate

You are reminded every time you see it, it’s there, not here, that it’s not you, you are you,  the … More

#Animals, #Changes, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

Space Cowboys

You don’t need any money to explore space.In fact, according to a story I read,a cow jumped over the moon, … More

#Animals, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Space, #WriterSaturday

Sloth

I would say or do anything to get out of this situation. Hey, I see clothes fluttering on the line … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Animals, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterMonday

Hunting for a Subject

I was sitting at the Tahitian Lānai piano barwith the actual Surgeon General of the United States,on vacation here in … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Animals, #Drinking, #OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Smoking, #WriterWednesday

The Stuff of Dreams

The first time I traveled there, a lengthy journeyall the way from Hawai‘i, I was alreadyan old man, had long … More

#Animals, #Memory, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Scotland, #Travel, #WriterMonday, Aging

The Cryptid Tale

Dr. Choo of the Zoology Department at Hawai‘i University has made it his life’s work to investigate sightings and stories … More

#Animals, #China, #FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #LovedOnes, #Marriage, #WriterTuesday

Target

He watched the Buddhist monks practice their archery at Kapiolani Park. They would draw back the bowstring, close their eyes, … More

#Animals, #Childhood, #FathersandSons, #FlashFictionFeb, #Food, #Hawaii, #Learning, #ShortStory, #WriterFriday

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