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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: #WriterMonday

All Our Summers Find One Winter’s End

The only photo I had was of you at that one picnic,blue, long-sleeved shirt, a turtle neck, and white slacks.Our … More

#Love, #WriterMonday, Aging, Death

What’s Done

Pressing themselves, all of them, into permanent wallflowers, these young people gone flat at functions, standing still, eyes lasers on … More

#Changes, #Communication, #life, #Technology, #WriterMonday

Celebratory Beers

When is a beer not a celebratory beer? This is not a riddle. Every beer I drink with relatives and … More

#Family, #WriterMonday, #Arguments

Some Legend

A revered professor.  From our days of college pressures and living free, before the world you know tries its level … More

#Discovery, #Education, #Memory, #Teachers, #WriterMonday

A Booking

An old man, a strange one, people said, ran the tiny bookstore that had withstood the covid test. You may … More

#Criminals, #Death, #WriterMonday

Blue Elephant

I’m not into tattoos. The first thing I ask a woman who’s interested in taking a relationship further is if … More

#Love, #Pain, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

When You’re Right

It began one Saturday morning when his mother had been drinking coffee and reading the paper at the breakfast table. … More

#Money, #MothersandSons, #Neighbors, #WriterMonday

Circus

As a child he’d attended the circus once, and once only.His parents, he imagined, must have seen it as a … More

#Animals, #ParentsandChildren, #Violence, #WriterMonday

Resolution

They were both art majors, both painters, a heavenly Art Department matchwho bought a home on ‘Ālewa Heights, and sectioned … More

#Arguments, #HusbandsandWives, #Love, #WriterMonday

Divination

His parents had raised him to be politically progressive.But over time, as their candidates lost again and again,his parents enthusiasm … More

#Ability, #Belief, #Conviction, #Powers, #WriterMonday

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

Tourists Everywhere

This industry — I see it in my travels, the flood of tourists and their money,spreading out and sprawling shades, … More

#Tourisim, #WriterMonday, Earth, Ecology

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

Anesthesia

“Mister Lee, are you awake?”        The thick, long blue curtains are pulled back, and light slips into the tiny room. … More

#Doctors, #Dreams, #WriterMonday

The Ending’s Beginning

This is the end of it, I think, standing stiff after 7 hours in the air,the snaking line of terminal … More

#Home, #Travel, #WriterMonday

Traditional Change

It’s billed as A Match Made in Heaven, a revered traditional Korean love storycarried down from a bygone age to … More

#Culture, #Education, #Korea, #Travel, #WriterMonday

War Story

On Jeju Island we travel rough backroads on our small bus,bumping along narrowly through perfectly planted fields,row on row of … More

#Korea, #Travel, #War, #WriterMonday

How Everything Fades

In the evening as the sun slips down in the horizon line,I see myself glimmering in the airport window glass,a … More

#family, #Korea, #Travel, #WriterMonday

Old Acquaintance

You surprise me, knocking on my door after 15 years,but I recognize that face behind the mask instantly.The last time … More

#friendship, #Love, #WriterMonday

Blood

Are you a friends and family, or a family and friends type of person? Whenever I say it or write … More

#family, #Friends, #WriterMonday

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