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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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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…

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

Not for Sale

In 1973, on the heels of him rocketing into the big name star echelon, Neil Young came to Hilo Town…

#Fathers, #Hawaii, #Love, #Music, #ParentsandChildren, #Rivalries, #Teenagers, #WriterWednesday, Hawaii

Assisting the Spirit

Mrs. Cho’s gift was guiding spirits to the afterlife.  People who knew about her ability – and this was all…

#Death, #Grandparents, #Grief, #Hawaii, #OldAge, #ShortStory, #WriterTuesday

Then and Now

I had to go back to the place on Maui where my father and I used to fish.  Coming to…

#Aging, #FathersandSons, #Ghosts, #Hawaii, #OldAge, #ShortStory, #Time, #WriterMonday

The Swimming Lesson

When Art Kamaka was three years old, his father had drowned, along with two friends, while fishing in the Kaiwi…

#Childhood, #Death, #FathersandSons, #FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #ShortStory, #Swimming, #TakingChances, #WriterSunday

To Save a Life

Kwan woke to a neighbor’s rooster’s crow.  It was a welcome new sound these days, for her.  Other neighbors hated, she knew,…

#Animals, #Death, #FlashFictionFeb, #gooddeeds, #ShortStory, #TakingChances, #WriterSaturday

A Bad Connection

The phone rang, distracting her.  She was thinking about her husband, Harry.  She looked over at the clock:  9:45.  He was coming home later…

#Changes, #FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #Love, #Marriage, #ShortStory, #WriterFriday

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,…

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

The Best Gift

“I want the red one,” said the little girl, pointing to it. Mr. Watanabe looked at it.  Then at the other…

#Birthdays, #FEBRUARY FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE 2021, #Grandparents, #Hawaii, #Marriage, #ShortStory, #WriterWednesday

Business as Unusual

Robert Morgado did pest control.  His father had done pest control, and so had his grandfather.  When his wife said “Nuff already,…

#Children, #family, #FathersandDaughters, #FEBRUARY FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE 2021, #ShortStory, #Work, #WriterTuesday

Still Standing

It amazed him how long, after a tree died, was even completely rotted through like this one appeared to be,…

##FlashFictionFeb, #FEBRUARY FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE 2021, #Grief, #Hawaii, #Love, #Marriage, #ShortStory, #WriterMonday

Closing Time at the Kaka‘ako Café

Even though the café was a small one, between cooking and running the front by herself, Asako was having a…

#CharacterSketch, #food, #Hawaii, #ShortStory, #Work, #WriterSunday

To Move On

All those times you’d been togethernot holding onto you, sticking with you,how after all this can laughter heal you, evercome…

#Death, #Grief, #Love, #LovedOnes, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSaturday

The world, grown old

You know, my fate’s really always come down to you.It’s been that way since 1982.I’ve counted the years nearly every…

#Aging, #Love, #OldAge, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wishes

No Game Stop

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

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

Within a dream

When she hugged you the last time, the wind whispered, traitor. You feed my sleep often with dreams of yesterday…

#Love, #Poetry, #Searching, #WriterWednesday

My dog howls at the moon

Is it because he wants to have the moon here with him?Does he want to eat itfor all he knows…

#Animals, #Astronomy, #Poetry, #WriterTuesday

dot dot dot

pretend you knew where you were goingand now you’ve run into usso follow along the silent spaces we speak in…

#Mystery, #OnWriting, #Poetry, #Reading, #WriterMonday

2019 in Wuhan

This is for the man in Wuhansitting by the roadside in the shade of the overpassdirty white undershirt and mussed…

#CharacterSketch, #China, #Poetry, #travel, #WriterSunday

Strong Women

She was having a hard time going to sleep, maybe fear of the dark and all those kinds of trauma…

#Children, #Education, #Grandparents, #Hawaii, #Politics, #Prejudice, #Race, #ShortStory, #WriterSaturday

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