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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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Tag: #Games

Let’s play pretend, I say

They give me an odd look. Well okay then, I seemy knee in her back –the small of it, looks … More

#Adulthood, #Childhood, #Games, #GrowingUp, #WriterMonday

A Little Advice

Trying to recall, I started counting when you said it,how many times you’d told me that before.“You should never do … More

#Childhood, #Games, #Marriage, #OldAge, #WriterWednesday

Puzzling

She turns both the box cover and bottom over, taps themon the coffee table, asks me did I hide the … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Romance, #WriterTuesday

Covid, I tell you, too sick to write. But I think I’m back. This draft is called “King of the Lily Pond”

Ed reads the draft of his story. It’s about Joe, his oldest cousin, tall and broad, much more so than … More

#Childhood, #Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

The Honesty Policy

Albert could hear him stop on the other side of the door.  He sounded like an asthmatic, as if the exertion … More

#Games, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Playing Old

When it’s time for me to pretend I’ve grown old,I’ve decided the most important thingI’ll need to be able to … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Aging

Pray for a Generation A

We’re in a woeful state, down to the last generation: Z.I fear it might be they’re an omega of generations … More

#Childhood, #Children, #Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

It’s All Work

You would think so, right, that during the downtime one of us might have done it, but we never have. … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Accident

We’d collected tops, when they became a fad, nearly eclipsing yoyos.You replaced the nylon or cheap metal tips with nails,then … More

#friendship, #Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Icarus, Move Over

The pink plumeria tree still stands there. I can see it from my patio. More than twice its height at … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

No Game Stop

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

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

Mānoa Driving Lessons

Friday nights we smoke dopedrink Strawberry Hilland I give Steve driving lessons Every time we pass by her houseSteve stops … More

#Cars, #Drugs, #Games, #Love, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Teenagers, #WriterSunday, Drinking

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. … More

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