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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: #WriterTuesday

Save As and All That Jazz

This morning I’m frustrated.  Again. It’s a dating problem.  Story of my life. Ignoring, forgetting, misremembering, a typo. Each day I save … More

#OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The House of Missing Keys, Part 7

From the outside, Tia’s Place on Kapahulu appeared to be another simple and unassuming restaurant and bar along Kapahulu Avenue. … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterTuesday

Impermanent Ink (Blue Period)

You sent me the self-portrait in a card once, maybe 1980. You are lying on your stomach, propped up on … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterTuesday

Stories of My Grandmother

Sometimes my maternal grandmother visits me,I’ll come awake gradually, know she’s sitting there,silent guardian at the foot of my bed, … More

#Grandparents, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

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

London Stairs for Going Down

“Mind the stairs, mate,”he shouts in a harsh tone.I look up, he down at me, his facethat of an angry … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterTuesday

Hold On

March, about those last three days you borrowed from April to warm you up.I can guess why you wouldn’t want … More

#Advice, #Observation, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Moving On

This old house stands a ruin.  To restore it would be nothing short of a teardown.  The folks on This Old House would take … More

#Home, #life, #Progress, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

I Am a Roll

I am but a lowly butter roll, sitting in this tawdry woven basket, on this threadbare pink linen napkin amid … More

#Death, #food, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The Way of the World

These prints in the dust won’t last through a downpour Evidence of annihilation To be annihilated These tracks turning to … More

#Murder, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

What Is Your Favorite Color?

I often remember who I am, and I recall past events,both recent and distant, with a fair degree of accuracy.If … More

#Computers, #Memory, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The Last Time

Mr. Fujimoto wheeled his gray trash bin to the curb and dropped it at the edge. Pausing, he looked down … More

#HusbandsandWives, #Memory, #StoriesfromHawaii, #Time, #WriterTuesday

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

All That Glitters

He’d collected coins from the time his father thought he was ready to understand the hobby. “You see, David,” said … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #Hobbies, #Murder, #WriterTuesday

The Fourth Quarter

We’re in our late 60s now. We’ve been getting together to watch the University of Hawai‘i Rainbow football games for … More

#Friends, #OldAge, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

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

The Lion, the Witch, and the Broomstick

He comes in out of the rain, slides off his lion’s head, grabs a beer, and leans back against the … More

#Fear, #friendship, #Halloween, #Love, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

On the Clock

I always think it’s a dream, you know, that whole today is ending now,the clock ticking me up to midnight … More

#Death, #Knowledge, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The Bigger Picture

Each year of my life, from the very first timeI was conscious of believing it might be this way,I was … More

#Death, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

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

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