The moon hangs in full promise on the last night of a strange year. The North Wind chills the air as it blows through town, making way for Sister South…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
36 SPF (500 words)
Because I’m the oldest, I often act like a smarty pants to my brother and younger cousins. Very reluctantly, I admit that sometimes my know-it-all attitude gets me into humble predicaments….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
Aunty Magic (500 Words)
One of my greatest pleasures in life is being an aunty. For me, it is more than a title. It is a calling. Some are built to be mothers. Me, child-free by choice, I was…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
Always Your Girl (500 words)
Dear Kauai, I will always love you. I am sorry I was in such a rush to leave you. You gave me all the stars in the heavens. But I…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
GROWTH OF THE SAMURAI AS A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER
GROWTH OF THE SAMURAI AS A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER Dog . . . Dog . . . Wet a goal a dog Nanny, Nanny, so so Fauna toe be toe. When…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
Just Another Wannabe Blues (100 words)
If I thought that I might be a poet I would laze away days in reverie Fake till I make it, make like I know it Like an overplayed song,…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
Where Love Grows
Mexican papaya, the kind available in stores where I live, no taste as good as the ones that grow in Dad’s back yard–silky soft sweetness, melt-in-your-mouth. So how come no…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
Ode to My Canyon River Blues (Jeans)
Barbwire snagged the left knee and I had torn it turning away from a stile, nearly losing balance while sloughing through the black mud of a backtrail curving behind a…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
A Broken Promise (500 Words)
We need a bigger boat!! “Let’s take a boat ride to the Na Pali Coast,” he said. Uncle was arranging the activities for the family reunion and wanted us to…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Tiger -- July Contest
The Language of Love
(A 100-word Shakespearean style sonnet) We find ourselves inside this corridor of language; she comes from the eastern door, and I the western one, each taking more steps toward what…
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