Here are the monthly winners in The Great BR Year of the Snake Writing Contest. They've won $10 Bamboo Bucks to use in the online store : ) Here's the list of winners and their awards: Da mos Down in da Poe-a-tree Trenches Award “Misses and Mythconceptions,” by Normie Salvador http://www.bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=1437 Da mos Eat da…

June is busting out all over, and so is our ongoing writing contest. This month, the limit is back to 500 words. The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: Issue Number 60, Winter 1994, New Moon Issue Number 61/62, BANANAHEART & OTHER STORIES, by Marie Hara…

Year of the Snake Contest entry. Triggers: #2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, & 11. 248 words.

I’ve never written a poem But I have walked a lava field at midnight And seen the ropy hair of Pele unfurl in searing orange into a roiling sea. Year of the Snake Contest Entry. 230 words.

Triggers for June: 1. I'm never doing this again 2. when we could not see each other 3. like a chain-reaction 4. speechless and angry 5. don't you understand? 6. wiseass 7. if you can't say something nice 8. the sky's the limit “Body Surfer,” by Susan M. Schultz Thinking's a disease I want no…

Triggers for June: 1. so many plans had to be reconsidered 2. we did not do anything 3. you didn’t have to talk 4. we studied how to do it 5. the only problem was 6. so much going on 7. she liked her loneliness 8. trancelike From “Bananaheart”:           The second time it happened, she…

…when Uncle Bobo picked me up, he was wearing something kinda different under his fishing shirt, like one shiny night clubbing shirt, Don Ho style kine. Like I said, UNDERNEATH his hamajang fishing shirt.: 1,044 words

99 words in how a summer night eating out at the food trucks can turn into something sensual.

Year of the Snake Contest: 1914 words.

Closed Bloody Fists: 78 Words