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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 Wednesday

A Sleepless Night

He thought about how a bullet travels at 1700 miles per hour, so if you see it, it’s only for … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterWednesday

Holy Night

It was madness to treat you like some character locked in a box, for all I knew, you suffering too … More

#Anger, #Death, #Love, #Sorrow, #WriterWednesday

Our Fathers’ House

A vision, they pop up ahead of us on the horizon,these sheets of red flowers blowing, rippling waves,like huge blood … More

#Death, #Generations, #WriterWednesday

A Song

Some are moved by the words first, hear them, read them, following along, are caught up attending to meaning, to … More

#OnWriting, #WriterWednesday

The Perfect Price

“Like magic!” That’s what she thought, opening the package to find it was exactly what she’d thought about buying at … More

#Love, #Money, #Shopping, #Sisters, #WriterWednesday

Lost in Thought

Thinking I don’t feel like anything’s slowing down for meyet, bolting out of a house of wood and stone, gonefrom … More

#Dreams, #FathersandSons, #WriterWednesday

Poisoning

Besides roach and ant traps, this time Alika added rat poison. He’d started hearing them at night. In between the … More

#Critters, #WriterWednesday

Unusual Business

They weren’t friends. Let’s call them acquaintances. Maybe. They’d done business together for several years, now, and today’s meeting had … More

#WriterWednesday, Friendship, Work

Hit

This time he wrote the song about the break-up of his first marriage. The funny thing is, that was the … More

#Murder, #Music, #OnWriting, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

Pursuit

The only way to get in there, she believed without question, was throughperforming good deeds, the living by and through … More

#gooddeeds, #life, #Religion, #WriterWednesday

Gift

Now he saw their relationship in the way stakeholder analysis works,wished he’d thought more about this deal when they first … More

#Death, #Love, #Romance, #WriterWednesday

Value

The work wasn’t easy, more like hard play. She wasa busy barista, true, and all of the manic franticnessof rush … More

#Beauty, #Love, #SelfImage, #Work, #WriterWednesday

My Ambitious Poem

When I woke up this morning, I wanted to write my first 1000 line poem.Ambitious, perhaps, but it’s been my … More

#Humor, #OnWriting, #Poetry, #WriterWednesday

New Old Dog (I’m still struggling)

For one, you were a sleight-of-hand magician,and I still haven’t figured out all of the tricks youpulled, a tribute to … More

#Death, #FathersandSons, #life, #Time, #WriterWednesday

A Little Advice

Trying to recall, I started counting when you said it,how many times you’d told me that before.“You should never do … More

#Childhood, #Games, #Marriage, #OldAge, #WriterWednesday

Job Description

(Please Note: My postings are always rough drafts. By the time you see them, I’ve sometimes made changes/corrections, maybe even … More

#Danger, #Fear, #Work, #WriterWednesday

Everything Is Connected

I sit listening to the ocean lap as the sun rises from the east,follow its crawl up the sky from … More

#Habits, #Korea, #Travel, #WriterWednesday

And this, too, is Paradise

Here in paradise they’ll paytake me to Hawai‘i neiHome of Diamond Headpearly shells from the oceanTourists negotiate the poornight and … More

#Hawaii, #Poverty, #Tourisim, #WriterWednesday

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

Murder, He Dreamed

Ever feel like you should be on trial for something?With what we get away with over our life’s course,do you … More

#Dreams, #Humor, #WriterWednesday, Murder

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