Prologue Hurry, don’t be late I can’t hardly wait I said to myself when we’re old We’ll go dancing in the dark, walking through the park And reminiscing — Graeham…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
So What da Buggah Said? Part Eight (The End)
Part 1 “So what da buggah said?” Rudy the barber asks me. “Some bullshit about Denise and Chris.” I’m waiting for a haircut. Out of the corner of my eye,…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Wishing Well Part 7 (Final Part)
Wishing Well Part 1 When you wish for something hard enough, you just might get it. Then comes the part about how hard you thought about what happens next, as…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
ON HE RODE — Chapter Ten
“For your service to our country,” I might have said in response to the, “Thanks for the ride,” he did not say. I find a sort of wide spot in…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Dog
Writing Contest rules and regs for the final Year of the Dog entry.
Happy Year of the Pig. On this day, we will move to launch the final chapter of our stories for the Year of the Dog. Feel free to add on…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Kaloa Pau : notes from a fisherman’s diary
Kaloa Pau Cold morning Fisherman shuffles to the calendar on the wall, Squinting at the tiny print. Oh, Kaloa Pau moon, fishing supposed to be “excellent”. We’ll see about dat……
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Hawai’i sonnet 40
You whisper dawn again and I think damn, you’re going to go. You rise and I can’t catch my breath for you speaking your soft night’s end song. Some is…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Wishing Well, Part 6
Part 1 When you wish for something hard enough, you just might get it. Then comes the part about how hard you thought about what happens next, as in being…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
ON HE RODE — Chapter Nine
“Get his/her act together,” a statement containing the seeds of its own refutation and rebuttal. Or seed: the word “act”. What seems to give the statement credibility is the assumed…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Dog
Bamboo Ridge Year of the Dog writing contest rules for January : )
Happy New Year! Remember that this month’s entry will be second to last. Next month we are done with phase one. Feel free to add on to any one of…