How does one long for the future, Yet cannot loosen the grip of the past? Twenty-two came just as fast as twelve had gone. I keep my room empty…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for October 2025 Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
The Lost Wave
TITLE: The Lost Wave By: Michele Brunngraber Word Count: 300 Prompt: Settlers It started as a school project—trace your family tree, print the DNA chart. He sat in…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for October 2025 Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
Lunar New Year Eve
The Chinatown Hale People used to tell me about the apartments on the second and third floors of Chinatown, sometimes called Hales, where many of Hawaii’s poorest communities resided. Conditions…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for October 2025 Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
Filling da pukas: 200 words
Strands of memory cachi cachi hair loose flowing down her brown shoulders her jaw is my jaw her eyes are my eyes Just gives you the blues… In da…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for October 2025 Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
October 2025 Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
Aloha, writers, and a very Happy October to you. For October, let’s again write pieces that are either exactly 100 words, 200 words, or 300 words. Here are the prompts…

