BR 100 word contest
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
THE PHOTOGRAPH
She stares at the photograph yellowed with age. The precious moment stood still with only a click. Her mother’s words “your Daddy’s gone to heaven” ring in her ear. “Your Daddy wouldn’t want to see his little girl cry”; therefore, she never did. Her secure, innocent life changed forever. She attempts to commit to memory…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
Autumn’s Passing: Another Year, Another Melody
BR 100 word contest
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
Money for the Dead
And they collapse into themselves, ten wrinkled women, their curled salt and pepper hair pinned under black kerchiefs. Faded floral blouses and black trousers. Gnarled hands reach for gold and silver paper in a heap around a red candle. Jook boils on the stove and folded money burns a white, wispy river, gently swaying on…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
A Menehune Explains
"Know for yourself, this truth never varies: Menehune are Hawaii's fairies." (Rath writes about Hawaii's fabled folk.)
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
Tonight I Propose
100-word short story contest (Sept)
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
So Tonight I Let You Go
From 2006. An old journal entry.
Bamboo Shoots awards
August “Whatevah” Winners: The Great BR Short-Short Story Contest
Congratulations! Here are the August "whatevah" winners selected from entries posted before Midnight, August 31, GMT
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
Eh! My Mahdah, She Good Li’dat.
Here is something I wrote when I first started out in English.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Prose
San Francisco
I’ve hidden love notes for you all over the city. Folded pieces of paper under bus seats and stapled to power lines. At the mall, 15 minutes away from your house, I dug my nail into an armrest of a couch I was sitting on, so you could touch the raised line across the smooth…