Just The Way We Like It In the kitchen heat, I think of you as I peel the bacon strips cool from the fridge. I carefully place each of them…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- August Contest
How We Like It
How We Like It I love you more than bacon. Really, I do. In the kitchen heat, I think of you as I carefully place In the pan, bacon strips…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rat -- August Contest
Prompt for Monday 8.24.20: Usual Patterns
Okay, here’s the last prompt for August. Some prompts that come to mind are patterns, routines, chickens, therapy, Freud, couches, cartoons, the “funny papers,” drawing, and taking notes. How about…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- August Contest
Pass the Bacon
It was the stinking pig I raged against for killing my Grandpa young, thickening his arteries, spawning the fatal embolic stroke. Grandpa loved his rendered lard, kept near the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- August Contest
A Madison Mis-Memory
I. My poor dance of memory means I can’t quite reconfigure you, a fool’s waltz round to think today, remembering how we might have been only some gasped reaction, like…
Aloha #WriterMonday to all of you. I hope you had a safe and productive weekend. This is Bamboo Shoots Monthly Writing Contest #WritingPrompt day, the third prompt of the month….
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rat -- August Contest
Prompt for M 08.10.20: Kalapana
Okay, writers, here’s the second prompt for this month’s writing contest. Use it to inspire a piece of writing, any length, any style, and then post it as a contest…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rat -- August Contest
Prompt for M 08.03.20: I love you more than bacon . . .
Okay, monthly contest writers, aloha #WriterMonday to you all. Here’s the first Monday #WritingPrompt for August. Use it to inspire a piece of writing of any style, any length, and…