It was winter break, which is a funny term for it here in Hawai‘i. I’d answered an ad in the Hawai‘i Star. A…
Never Ever Let You Go
The choice, a desperate grasp of great consequence,a hand, cramped with fisted frustration, fingers straining,reaching harder than hard burned bricks…
The Earth Rolls On
She looks like she’ll be the oldest person in the theater tonight,yet she rolls down the aisle as if she…
No Fall at Kōke‘e
It was that booming sound of rage, so thrillingto witness the angry sloshup of hydrologic forces,brimming froth and foam and…
Movie Musing
He’s only a speck when he comes to town, before he grows larger, becomes recognized at the edge as a…
Sometimes a love doesn’t seem hardly enough
to get me through this world whole Sometimes it’s just enough to get me out of bedbut by midday I’m…
My corn grows high
in five large black plastic pots on my lānai,watering, and fertilized with care,I am satisfied, bearthe slight tremorin my hands…
Old Dance Record
This is the way it should be for everyone who passesswing us back, some yearning mote of feather dust floatsin…
The Walker
I need to buy tennis balls, I thought, go upand say it’s a gift, because, you know, sir,I’ve heard they…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 24, All’s Well That Ends
1977. It’s mostly a blur. Sometimes when I try to recall the events of that year, it seems as if it were…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 23, A Tale of Mad City
My first semester at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, definitely had its best of times and worst of times split…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 22, The Bachelor Life for Me
Never start a piece of writing offering your reader advice. What you will find, I have reason to believe, is that…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 21, It Was a Very Good Year
A one, and a two: When I was living Chapter 21, it was a very good year . . . …
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 20, I Draw the Line
I was maybe 15 minutes late. I ran up the stairs to the 3rd floor of George Hall and popped in the…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 19, Ah yes, I remember it well
The line was incredibly long. We stood in the dark, many of us smoking because none of us knew about secondhand…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 18, Like Heads Through the Hourglass
Drinking alcohol was so easy now. It seemed like only yesterday, on a dull Friday or Saturday night, we’d be…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 17, The Man from Maui
Ho! I bet you thought when I said I’d write about that other important 11th-Grade teacher later, you were wondering how…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 16, The Man from the North
My junior year in high-school was one of those amazing years, the kind of year that does not come around…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 15, Get Your Motor Running
When I would hear my friends talk about what their children were going through to get their driver licenses, I…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 14, A Petty Pace
I know this may be hard to believe, but there was a time once, many moons ago, when English majors…
Lanning Lee 