I heard a car pull up and stop behind me. Looking back, I watched a woman emerge slowly from the driver’s side door. Coming around to the curbside, she slid…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
ON HE RODE — Chapter Eight
To help me choose my route, I’ve got a magazine-sized Rand-McNally road atlas as my ready reference, though so far I’ve used it more to tell me where I’ve been…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Dog
Bamboo Ridge Year of the Dog writing contest rules for December : )
Writers, feel free to add on to any one of the following choices. There are three choices. Don’t forget to include the preceding parts of the story when you post…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Title for this chapter: Settling In
So I woke up not dead, and proceeded from the church back to Dunkin’ Donuts, the place that would become a permanent reference point for me, a little bit like…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
On He Rode — Chapter Seven
“So what’re you guys up to?” I ask the two tee-shirt-and-jeans teen-agers who wander into my camp and stop twenty yards in front of me with my hood up. The…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Nighthawks, Chapter 4
Story Number Two * * * * * Nighthawks – Chapter 1 When you wish hard enough for something, you might get it. It was getting late, and I moved…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
hawai’i sonnet 14
for pc tell me again why the rain is wrong for us to walk in, uncovered now why your words curve waves around me life preserver (render reality illusion) tasting…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
So what da buggah said?
* * * * * Story Number Three * * * * * (Part One) “So what da buggah said?” Rudy the barber asks me. “Some bullshit about Denise and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
ON HE RODE — Chapter Six
I’m headed south on this fading afternoon of my very first, quite eventful, day on the road. I’ve travelled a couple hundred miles, seen some country, got a haircut, probably…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Wishing Well
Part One 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…