Bamboo Shoots Submission for July 2024 Year of the Dragon Bamboo Shoots Writing Challenge Prompts
The White Man
“White man” says a boy in the room. I am not a white man. “Hah, you are white” agrees a girl. I am not a…
The Blue in the Stratosphere There is a light gleaming From across the vast and empty sea It is blue, like headlights from a distant far off place of…
An off-island CHamoru dreams of plastic jugs filled to the brim with pickled mangoes and papaya. Freshly made titiyas, both flour and månha. On summer nights, niyok cut with a…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for July 2024 Year of the Dragon Bamboo Shoots Writing Challenge Prompts
Woleai
Woleai Atoll is close enough to kiss the softest mouths of Ulithi, Fais, Sorol, Eauripik, Faraulep, Ifaluk, Elato, Lamotrek and Satawal these are the Outer Islands of the western Carolines—outer from Yap i…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for July 2024 Year of the Dragon Bamboo Shoots Writing Challenge Prompts
Silent Sea
Sunlit afternoon upon a black sea of caps, gowns and tassels. A man speaks but his words echo soundlessly across the water, reverberating against their own emptiness. The placid body…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for July 2024 Year of the Dragon Bamboo Shoots Writing Challenge Prompts
Jimmy
It was 3pm and we were bored. The season was around the corner, and this was going to be one of the last free afternoons we’d have until summer. “Let’s…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for July 2024 Year of the Dragon Bamboo Shoots Writing Challenge Prompts
Math Rhymes with Laugh
The little girl’s eyes were riveted on the four objects her father placed on the table in front of him. “Potatoes?” she asked. “That’s right, Love Muffin,” said Mr. Lau,…
Okay, Lanning, and anybody else who’s still alive out there. Let’s write the usual 100 to 1000. Any kind of poem, story, essay, play, or hybrid style is good. In…