Skip to content
Lanning Lee

Lanning Lee

Aloha. I'm an author of prose and poetry living in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Please read with me, comment, and share your own writing.

  • About Me
  • Publications
  • Literature and Related
  • Favorite Quotes
  • Film Reviews
  • Contact
  • Home

Category: Writer Thursday

Snowfall

Remember how the flakes of snow fell that day,catch on your tongue slow, fluttering like moths,like feathers, gentle rocking motion, … More

#Love, #Poetry, #Weather, #WriterThursday

What I’m Looking For

What are the three things you’re looking for most in a partner? Hmmm . . . Well, I want to … More

#Dating, #Love, #Relationships, #ShortStory, #WriterThursday

A Marriage of Two Minds

“So what do you think it looks like?” she asks. We’re head to head, lying on the grass, staring up … More

#Animals, #Changes, #FlashFictionFeb, #Love, #Marriage, #Relationships, #ShortStory, #WriterThursday

The Holy One

Hey!  What are you looking at?  Are you looking at me?  Well, it sure seems like it.  Not that I’m the only one here, … More

#CharacterSketch, #FlashFictionFeb, #friendship, #Memory, #ShortStory, #WriterThursday

No Game Stop

We were that amusement, some bright, shiny object,the birthday toy, the circus mobile spinning above the crib to mesmerizeor maybe … More

#Games, #Love, #Poetry, #Relationships, #Time, #WriterThursday

Poetic thought

The more I drinkthe higher the cigarette butts pile up in the ashtraythe more I think . . . That … More

#OnWriting, #Poetry, #WriterThursday

What’s the Real Crime?

We went down and sat in the hotel lobby.  David and Mr. Kim discussed three things:  what might have been the object … More

#DetectiveStory, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterThursday

Kāne‘ohe Again (450 words)

I was sitting by the phone at 8:30, just in case the greedy bastard was anxious to get his $1000.  But … More

#DetectiveStory, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterThursday

that spot there

on a map we scana pinpoint we missangel almost headeddance so finestuck too throughfound unfoundout the other sidelost, no, lost, … More

#Poetry, #Searching, #Time, #WriterThursday

Surveillance Photos (180 words)

This is the kind of thing we did.  Routine kinda stuff.  Safe.  Usually. I was working a suspicious spouse case myself.  Guys cheat on … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #Mystery, #WriterThursday

No Clue (90 words)

I came this close.  That “in the very next breath” thing.  It took all he had to gesture, get me on my … More

#BambooRidgeWritingContestEntry, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #Murder, #Mystery, #WriterThursday

I know about first love

I’ve been there and I can tell youexactly what it’s like.  For sure youhoped she’d be someone special, the one, andwow … More

#Dating, #Kissing, #Love, #Relationships, #WriterThursday

The Earth Rolls On

She looks like she’ll be the oldest person in the theater tonight,yet she rolls down the aisle as if she … More

#Ecology, #Environment, #Poetry, #WriterThursday

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 23, A Tale of Mad City

My first semester at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, definitely had its best of times and worst of times split … More

#Education, #friendship, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #Music, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Teachers, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 16, The Man from the North

My junior year in high-school was one of those amazing years, the kind of year that does not come around … More

#Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Reading, #Teachers, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 11, Opera Man

So my sister, a charter member of the organization, said, “Come try out for the Honolulu Children’s Opera Chorus.  You might … More

#Childhood, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #Music, #Opera, #Performance, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 4, Accidents Will Happen

Man, I really hate this.  So now I’m going to have the same problem.  I want to write about my third year … More

#Childhood, #Friends, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt, Accidents, Animals, Education, Games

Another Game (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 21)

A man the right height approached, a baseball cap pulled down over his dark glasses.  He carried a black case maybe … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

On the Edge

We approach the Russian Border traveling from Kirkenes, Norway by boat.  In order to come right to the borderline, we … More

#Education, #Politics, #ShortStory, #travel, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

The Woman on the Beach (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 14)

Chan asked, “So when did Wo Fat and his four friends fly back to Shanghai?” “Oh,” said Kelly, “only the … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

Posts navigation

Older posts
Follow Lanning Lee on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Archives

  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
Start a Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×