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Lanning Lee

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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She remembered that day, that one so long agoit seemed it was a dream, and that fond embraceso hard it … More

#Love, #Marriage, #Memories, #WriterFriday

Conflict

After her arm was broken, dizzy, she fell trying to call outweakly for anyone to help, then slipped into darkness.She’d … More

#Abuse, #Fear, #Marriage, #WriterSaturday

It’s possible I forgot to get married today

The text messages and the voice mails piled up.Are still coming.These guys stay open late.If it were letters, my mailbox … More

#Marriage, #Memory, #WriterSaturday

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

Do Them Part

Someone wake him before he dreams of her again.On the shore, two with pants legs, their cuffs rolled upto save … More

#Love, #Marriage, #WriterTuesday

She Will

She asks me if I’ve taken out the trash yet,and because I haven’t, I don’t answer her. I continue watching … More

#Love, #Marriage, #WriterWednesday

Haven’t you learned anything? she says

What is it you see out there?  What do you hear? My woman standing at the window staring out into the … More

#Education, #Learning, #Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The Bigger Person

The dream was so horribly vivid that I thought I was awake and watching the news on TV. A friend … More

#Marriage, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Do Us Part

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

#Love, #Marriage, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

It Felt So Good

That Sony radio’s cheap black leather strapjust barely tied the music to my wrist.So poorly made I feared it just … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

Self Help

As agreed, I am waiting in the Self Help section of the bookstore.I read in a randomly selected book that … More

#Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Sugar or Salt?

We sat opposite each other, each stirring coffee in thick white cups, trying to cool it off. “Cream,” I said.  “Cream … More

#Love, #Marriage, #ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

The Door Is Open

Alice was down on her knees scrubbing the kitchen floor when the doorbell rang. The kitchen floor always took a … More

#Disability, #HusbandsandWives, #Love, #Marriage, #MothersandDaughters, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Love at Last Sight

My brain has always been a foggy swirl of what-ifs.Every day, really. Choices. Of great consequence or small.Do I ask her … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Blue Mounds

We are walking the area called Blue Moundsjust outside of Madison, on a sunny summer day.It’s another picnic, she loves … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday

11:11

I glance at the clock, and it’s 11:10, one minute shy of that best moment of our lives. On the … More

#Clocks, #Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

The Caretaker – Part One

Maybe, he mused once, if it hadn’t been for marriage, he’d have ended up in prison.  Once he met Beatrice, … More

#Hawaii, #Love, #Marriage, #Shoplifting, #ShortStory, #TakingChances, #WriterSaturday, Aging

The Cryptid Tale

Dr. Choo of the Zoology Department at Hawai‘i University has made it his life’s work to investigate sightings and stories … More

#Animals, #China, #FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #LovedOnes, #Marriage, #WriterTuesday

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 … More

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

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 … More

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

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