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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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Hit and Run (the Mouth)

I spot her in my passenger sideview mirror. I’m stopped, waiting for a car and a pedestrian to clear. I…

#Accidents, #Driving, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

A Blue Christmas Is Certain

No amount of snow – and they have lots of it – can possibly hide every single blue thing in…

#Norway, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #Winter, #WriterFriday

An Unsuitable Way for You To End It With Me

I’ve been dumped many times, and one thing I’ll sayis that every time it happens it’s so awfully cliché.I hate…

#BreakingUp, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Driver-less Cars

I sit behind you at the stoplight, and I know you. The light turns green, but your head bows toward…

#Death, #Phones, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Driving

Seeing Things

“There there there!” says Eddie, pointing through the crack in the curtain. “See what I mean?” I still don’t see…

#Drinking, #Friends, #Smoking, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The Right Question

So I was walking right behind this guy, following him into Longs. Bam. He went directly to the nearest cashier,…

#Arguments, #Criminals, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Episode #4 of my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery is now available

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0B1BMXFJX

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery

Do Us Part

June, they say, is for weddings, and lovers often schedule their exchange of vows accordingly. Some couples may not know…

#Love, #Marriage, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Something Blue

She brought such joy under each moon, the air quiver of a cricket’s sharp chirp tingling, a pierce of air…

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

The House of Missing Keys, Part 18

The two finished their drinks without solving the case. They said their goodnights to Rick Tamanaha and the rest of…

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterFriday

Release

In the end, unwound and desperate, the cold head of the match gone dead, you are being drowned in darkness.…

#Death, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

The House of Missing Keys, Part 17

David Chan always sat in the back of the classroom.  This wasn’t an indication of his lack of interest in his…

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterWednesday

What Dreams May Come

A dream you dreamt.em It’s the one that surprises you at noon the following day. Eating your sandwich or washing…

#Dreams, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The House of Missing Keys, Part 16

Here’s my rough draft for today, Monday 05.30.22. The House of Missing Keys, Part 16. Chan watched Mrs. Souza cry…

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, Writer Monday

Memento Mori

He realized relatively young in life that he would die. That knowledge comes to each of us at a different…

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #War, #WriterSunday

The House of Missing Keys, Part 15

Recovering her composure, the woman opened the door and invited the two inside. After the three were seated, Chan began…

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterSaturday

Let’s Learn

On the bus we’re headed through the desert for the Red Sea,crossing a staggering, desolate landscape.The heat outside withers you…

#Egypt, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterFriday, Strangers

Holding On

Our group, struck by the sight of a medusa tree riding astride its monstrous barrow mounded base, myriad tentacle fingers…

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, Writer Thursday

Cliché, Not a Cliché?

I don’t think I’ve ever said to someone that something I’ve heard has been refreshing.I’m not sure I know what…

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Words, #WriterWednesday

The House of Missing Keys, Part 14

As Chan and Yamamoto waited for the coroner, Hank Lee, to arrive, they sat on the sofa across the coffee…

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterTuesday

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