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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.

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  • Hawaiʻi Calls: Kēkēmapa/December 2020
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NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 10, Moved by Music

My parents never held back when it came to providing us with a variety of cultural experiences.  One of these was…

#Childhood, #family, #Memoir, #Movies, #Musicals, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Opera, #ParentsandChildren, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 9, Doing Swimmingly

It was time, my parents decided, for me to learn how not to drown.  We live in Hawai‘i, so we’re surrounded…

#Childhood, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Smoking, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 8, To Read or Not To Read

I’ve always felt that there are some books I love so much that I keep coming back to them despite…

#Childhood, #Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Reading, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 7, The Good Old Summertime

If I’d been the right age to have experienced those long summer breaks of my childhood, where I’d have two-and-a-half…

#Childhood, #Education, #family, #FathersandSons, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #Summer, #travel, #Vacations, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt, NaNoWriMo2020

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 6, Like Riding a Bike

One October when I was living in Madison, I agreed to housesit for some friends who were headed out of…

#Animals, #Education, #FirstGrade, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 5, I Wish I Could Quit

You know how Mark Twain says that quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world, how he’s done it…

#Childhood, #Kindergarten, #Love, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Smoking, #WriterFriday, #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…

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

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 3, The Terrible Twos

The Terrible Twos?  Hell.  Shouldn’t this be Chapter 2 then, not Chapter 3?   Curses.   I’ll have to hammer that out come the final edit.…

#Childhood, #Games, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Strangers, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 2, My Teeth

Two things I do know for sure about my first year on this planet.  One, I was an aggressive breast feeder.  This…

#Dentists, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo, #Wisconsin, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

All That Jazz (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 23)

I struggled more with writing up this case than I did the last.  Because I myself wasn’t part of the case,…

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #Music, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 1, I Am Born

In the immortal words of Henry Frankenstein: “It’s alive. In the name of God now I know it seems like…

#GivingBirth, #NaNoWriMo, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt

A Father’s Love (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 22)

When the call from Shanghai came, Chan’s adrenaline rush quickly died. “There was no tall woman in a mu‘umu‘u on…

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #ParentsandChildren, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

A Memory of Dying

I can see us holding those little white pleated paper cups,smell the yellow pineapple cubes, icy cold, the perfect mid-morning…

#Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

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…

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

A Dying Wish

The second thing I remember is my 4th birthday party,five red wax candles burning on a pink cake, the extra one…

#Birthdays, #Memoires, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wishes, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

Chasing the Fat Man (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 20)

Chan asked what was up. “It’s a body.  They found it out back,” said officer Williams. Chan’s pulse quickened as the…

#CrimeFiction, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #ShootingPool, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

On Wisconsin

I hear, see, grow the silence of the fields, the farmershaving retreated into their farmhouses as graves,the long acres of…

#Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

The Missing Men (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 19)

“That bastard is playing pool next door,” said Chan to the other three 49ers.  “This is what we need to do.”…

#CrimeFiction, #disappearances, #Hawaii, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt

The Norway Dance

Last night I dreamed I danced on my Norwegian side.I’m ashamed to say, I’ve no idea what authentic Norwegian dance…

#Dancing, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

All Bets Off (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 18)

The crowd closed back around the table.  Chan saw it had thinned, many not wanting to be near him in the…

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

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