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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: Writer Monday

When You’re Right

It began one Saturday morning when his mother had been drinking coffee and reading the paper at the breakfast table. … More

#Money, #MothersandSons, #Neighbors, #WriterMonday

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

Resolution

They were both art majors, both painters, a heavenly Art Department matchwho bought a home on ‘Ālewa Heights, and sectioned … More

#Arguments, #HusbandsandWives, #Love, #WriterMonday

Divination

His parents had raised him to be politically progressive.But over time, as their candidates lost again and again,his parents enthusiasm … More

#Ability, #Belief, #Conviction, #Powers, #WriterMonday

Let’s play pretend, I say

They give me an odd look. Well okay then, I seemy knee in her back –the small of it, looks … More

#Adulthood, #Childhood, #Games, #GrowingUp, #WriterMonday

Tourists Everywhere

This industry — I see it in my travels, the flood of tourists and their money,spreading out and sprawling shades, … More

#Tourisim, #WriterMonday, Earth, Ecology

Latte Days

She sells coffee as a living at 22 young years,this whip-smart barista with the green hairtoday, red hair yesterday, and … More

#Time, #Work, #WriterMonday, #Youth

Anesthesia

“Mister Lee, are you awake?”        The thick, long blue curtains are pulled back, and light slips into the tiny room. … More

#Doctors, #Dreams, #WriterMonday

The Ending’s Beginning

This is the end of it, I think, standing stiff after 7 hours in the air,the snaking line of terminal … More

#Home, #Travel, #WriterMonday

Traditional Change

It’s billed as A Match Made in Heaven, a revered traditional Korean love storycarried down from a bygone age to … More

#Culture, #Education, #Korea, #Travel, #WriterMonday

War Story

On Jeju Island we travel rough backroads on our small bus,bumping along narrowly through perfectly planted fields,row on row of … More

#Korea, #Travel, #War, #WriterMonday

How Everything Fades

In the evening as the sun slips down in the horizon line,I see myself glimmering in the airport window glass,a … More

#family, #Korea, #Travel, #WriterMonday

Old Acquaintance

You surprise me, knocking on my door after 15 years,but I recognize that face behind the mask instantly.The last time … More

#friendship, #Love, #WriterMonday

Blood

Are you a friends and family, or a family and friends type of person? Whenever I say it or write … More

#family, #Friends, #WriterMonday

Death Certificates

Kahi felt like an idiot. He’d seen this so many times on TV, read about it in stories. If you … More

#life, #ParentsandChildren, #WriterMonday

Madison WI

I’ll be back next March 2023, aftera three-year hiatus has cost me time. It’s become a kindly drug that worksto … More

#College, #Time, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday, #Youth

State Your Name and Your Business Here

I’m not used to such formality, and there’s the additional layerof being ordered to do this by a man wearing … More

#Fear, #Food, #WriterMonday

All Those Miles

Taking hits between rehearsing scenes of Oliver!Smoking all the time during dances and concertsDriving home smashed Saturday nights from Wai‘alae Drive-InDrunk … More

#Childhood, #College, #Drinking, #HighSchool, #Smoking, #WriterMonday

A Hallmark Moment

My friend calls to tell me a co-worker,rushed to Queen’s Hospital the night before,had undergone an emergency quadruple-bypass. The others … More

#OnWriting, #Truth, #WriterMonday

Stay Away

I recall the manapua,my favorite steamed char siu buns,half-moons and pork hash.The box half full or half empty? When that … More

#Food, #Memories, #Romance, #WriterMonday

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