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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: #WriterFriday

Too Patient

It’s been harder for me to step across that line.You’ve been waiting there for me for such a long time.If … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Heeding Warnings

I finished my tea and what did I see this morning to my dismay? Those little black leaves at the … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Superstition, #WriterFriday

Finding Words Fast Enough

What do you do when you have a harder and harder time expressing in words what is running through your … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday, Writing

Countdown (Part Seven)

“They big,” said Yamamoto, “but not the biggest.  My Uncle Harry’s a realtor.  Lemme see what he knows.” Yamamoto used one phone.  Chan … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Afoot (100)

Leimomi Sanchez came on stage.  Chan said, “If you talk while she’s singing, she’ll read you the riot act.” Wow, I … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Searching (450)

I caught the bus back to Pacific Heights.  I sat drinking beer, staring out over Honolulu.  From Chan’s lanāi I could see … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Recognition (800)

“I brought in me,” my father said. “What?” “I am Kang Yu’s nephew.  I –” I interrupted.  “You mean I am part … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Disappearing Act (850)

Jerry and I sat out on the lanāi drinking.  We could see Central Union Church across Beretania beyond the monkeypod trees … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Let It Snow (500)

It was an early flight, but when you’re young, you schedule those because you know it’ll be easy to get … More

#ShortStory, #Travel, #Weather, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Fate (550)

He passed out.  My hand went numb, and I pulled it away from his, wiped it on my pants.  I’d say way … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Dead End (375)

David Chan parked on Kukui Street, then headed up to the third floor of the non-descript apartment building.  They all looked … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Love Is Mean (450)

Miles Kuroda was big right out of the chute.  Early on, children would tease him.  He didn’t understand what was so strange … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Love Lives (275)

David Chan drove as quickly as possible toward Kapahulu.  He was counting the days until construction began on the Interstate Highway … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

A Close Shave (100 words)

      Since he’d been introduced to Rudy, he’d go every Saturday for a professional shave.  During the week, he settled for his … More

#Murder, #ShortStory, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

The Lending Kind (HS 149)

I’m swirling in the drouse of that head on the pillow before sleep,a thousand ideas swizzling around my brain that … More

#HawaiiSonnets, #Relationships, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Grecian Formula Bleach Blond

Each time we meet, we roam the hills of imagination,plucking up little plots, new twists and turnsleading only to a … More

#Love, #Poetry, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

You Cook with Gas (HS 141)

With you, every day is lemon meringue day,that balance of sweet and sour on my tongue,huge fruit grown on your … More

#HawaiiSonnets, #Relationships, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

The Conversation

My phone.  I carry it everywhere.Sometimes I think I am the sanest person I know of.Then I think about Snowden.Don’t ask … More

#Paranoia, #Sanity, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

I Hope Tonight

When the moon whispersBelladona, dance,lighting her with its slightest touch,even if the wind is barely there,still a smallest of breezes … More

#WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt, Moon
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