October! This month, the limit is again, no limit — as many or as few words as you would like to write. The triggers for this month are lines taken…

Triggers for October: 1. what are you thinking right now? — From “After Words,” by Stuart Coleman 2. finally it was time for the celebration –From “Godoy,” by Walter Hiroichi…

Triggers for October: 1. he was so proud wen he brought um home — From “Da Glove,” by Eric Chock 2. it was somewhat scary, but exciting, and it didn’t…

Congratulations to Normie Salvador, an August winner in The Great BR Year of the Snake Writing Contest. Normie won 10 Bamboo Bucks to spend in the online store. Here’s the…

September! This month, the limit is again, no limit — as many or as few words as you would like to write. The triggers for this month are lines taken…

Triggers for September: 1. fast relief from pain 2. you know it can’t hurt you 3. an unsafe place to be 4. each small piece of me 5. like shifting…

From BR #70: Triggers for September: 1. then there would be much laughter 2. we have no strength left 3. the night was the longest 4. I did not see…

August already, and our contest enters its fourth year. This month, the limit is again, no limit — as many or as few words as you would like to write….

From “Kona Glitter, 1964: A Ghost Story,” by Kobai Scott Whitney . . .           For the life of me, I can’t remember what word we used for “hunk”in 1964. It…

From Issue 67/68:           “For the past twelve centuries, the Japanese people have expressed their intense pent-up emotions in tanka, one of the most unique and shortest forms of poetic expression…