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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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Hope

Memorization came easily for her, and at her first awarenessof this, she assumed everyone had been born equally able.As she … More

#Memory, #School, #Work, #WriterThursday, Ability, Talent

Lifesaver

He’d joined on the Daegu because his uncle captained that long-line vessel.It was grueling work, worse his stomach betrayed him … More

#Danger, #Fish, #life, #Work, #WriterTuesday

Hiatus

A break for her came, the grading of papers and the teaching done.The quiet pulse of what’s to do next, … More

#Retirement, #Teachers, #Work, #WriterSunday

Value

The work wasn’t easy, more like hard play. She wasa busy barista, true, and all of the manic franticnessof rush … More

#Beauty, #Love, #SelfImage, #Work, #WriterWednesday

Pro Bono

Have you ever been at that point in a project where you’re just about finished, but there’s some nervousness making … More

#Criminals, #HawaiiCrimeFiction, #Neighbors, #Work, #WriterTuesday

Job Description

(Please Note: My postings are always rough drafts. By the time you see them, I’ve sometimes made changes/corrections, maybe even … More

#Danger, #Fear, #Work, #WriterWednesday

Latte Days

She sells coffee as a living at 22 young years,this whip-smart barista with the green hairtoday, red hair yesterday, and … More

#Time, #Work, #WriterMonday, #Youth

All the Hours of the Day and Night

I don’t know which of the 12 hours I love more,the half that’s a.m., or the half that’s p.m.I’d always … More

#life, #OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterTuesday, Retirement

Carbon Copy

Turns the fingers, hands of sloppy, floppy people smudgy. Muck your hands around and blacken paper, shirt, cheek. Handwashers of … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterMonday

Happy Some Before Dawn

Quieter, still quieter, quiet down the energy pent up today, for such recklessness cannot sit wasting by the window ledge … More

#Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterWednesday

It’s ending a lot to look like Christmas

Nordstom finally took down their Christmas window displays. They’re not the last store at Ala Moana Shopping Center to do … More

#Christmas, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterTuesday

Splurge

When she had lost her job due to downsizing because of the pandemic, Michi imagined it was the end for … More

#Friends, #Shopping, #StoriesfromHawaii, #Work, #WriterSaturday

So I Notice My Electricity Bill Went Up

Two months ago, a pair of Hawaiian Electric workerscame to my house to install a state-of-the-art meterwith all the bells … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Truth, #Work, #WriterMonday

Far To Go

Kidnapped and blindfolded, I’m dumped in an unknown part of town.Sitting on the asphalt, I remember it’s Christmas Eve and … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #Work, #WriterThursday

Life Insurance

Among other jobs, my dad sold insurance. Salesman that he was, he would go anywhere necessary to visit clients, and … More

#Fathers, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterSaturday

The Downside of Town

My store is in a part of Chinatown that has so far avoided the magic wand of urban renewal.  Take … More

#Courtesy, #Customers, #Luck, #ShortStory, #Work, #WriterWednesday

Unraveling Sleep

Winding and windingup to wound and bound tightas the tasks to grab all day’s promisescramp tension strapped up in rapt … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Living, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Sleep, #Work, #WriterThursday

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, … More

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

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 … More

#CharacterSketch, #Food, #Hawaii, #ShortStory, #Work, #WriterSunday
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