Human Composting (100 words) The world didn’t end with Dad dead. Only tilted its axis, making the world unfocused. He was everything to everyone one day, reborn into a vase, the next. My brother took dad’s “feet” to a family plot in a cemetery edged by balding grass, sealing them in a puka, drilled into…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- January 2023 Contest
Adaptation (200 words, 150 words)
Adaptation (200 words) When I was 21, I was tired of school, tired of anger, and sick of hurting. At Fisherman’s Wharf, I watched ships dock, tie up to drop off their iced, dead fish, fresh from slow deaths at sea, but before that their lives lived free in open water, caught up only in…