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Lanning Lee

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: Strangers

Tourist

Tourist I’m walking the neighborhoods of this small Scottish village. It’s too tiny to be called a “town”; maybe it’s … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Scotland, #Strangers, #Travel, #WriterSaturday

The Growler

Here’s my rough draft for today, Saturday 01.22.22. I eat fast food maybe four times a year.  When I do, Burger … More

#food, #StoriesfromHawaii, #Strangers, #WriterSaturday

Some London Aloha

My sister and I are headed for the Royal Observatory, and we’ve decided to take a ride on the Thames … More

#Kindness, #London, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Strangers, #Travel, #WriterThursday

Oases

I’ve been the recipient of many acts of kindness during my post-retirement travels. From Antarctica in February 2017 to Egypt … More

#Kindness, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Strangers, #WriterSunday

The Outlier

Sheryl brought him to our party, Vern, a guy she’d met in her Psych class. We were playing Telegraph or … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Strangers, #WriterTuesday

The Visitor

For two nights straight, she’s come in around 8:00.  She sits down right in front of the stage.  Immediately when … More

#StoriesfromHawaii, #Strangers, #WriterFriday

Halloween

He despised children.  He sat there in the dark to make it look as though there was no one home.  … More

#fiction, #ShortStory, #Strangers, #WriterTuesday

The Wrong Time

She tried to be friendly to the customers most of the time. “I’m sorry, John, I didn’t quite catch your … More

#FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #ShortStory, #WriterSunday, death, Strangers

Midwest Aloha

I lay there looking up at what seemed like a bunch of wood and metal.  I could feel things digging … More

#FlashFictionFeb, #friendship, #Strangers, #Weather, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday

It’s All Downhill

I can hear the wind howl outside like the roar of North Shore winter waves back home in Hawai‘i.  I shiver, … More

#Aging, #Death, #fiction, #Strangers, #WriterSaturday, #Writing

if her

would there and then the vast emptyacross the horizon your hand for mepass all yourself to here, your walkand stopto … More

#Love, #Poetry, #Strangers, #Wishes, #WriterSaturday

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 3, The Terrible Twos

The Terrible Twos?  Hell.  Shouldn’t this be Chapter 2 then, not Chapter 3?   Curses.   I’ll have to hammer that out come the final edit. … More

#Childhood, #Games, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Strangers, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

Social Distancing

The man, 30-something, points to his wrist:  “Brah, what ti – ” I interrupt him, knowing where he’s going, and … More

#CharacterSketch, #fiction, #Hawaii, #ShortStory
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