Okay, it’s time to write for May. Let’s go 100 to 500 words. This month’s challenge is to use a line or sentence twice. Writing a poem? Use the same…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
A Temporary Parting (present/past)
I recognize the boy climbing up the bank on the other side. Turning, he calls to me, over the rush of the river, points to where a waterfall waits, high,…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
Snow Monkey: The Present/The Past
Snow Monkey: The Present The night is deep and dark, and I am the only visitor at the outdoor onsen on the hotel’s roof top. Fortunately, there is no wind,…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
Cruelty in April
First only green at the edges and on the ground. Then the heat arriving (like an unclocked summer) greens rise and invoke daffodils, crocuses quickly bloom and quickly die from…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
Kīpahulu Silence
Fog settling on Hawaiian birds, sharp and trilling between ʻokina, repeating and echoing over searching groans of wild bulls, over boars tearing up matrixes of dense forest roots with spear-edged…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rabbit
April 2023 Year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
Happy April. The cruelest month, or so I’ve heard some people moan about. I say the month is what you make of it. This month we’ll write between 100 and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
The Forgotten
He shuffles off down the street, looking for another safe space, another place to lay down and rest his tired and broken body and his weeping soul. He puts…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
What I Learned in Manhattan (bottom to top)
My brain felt active in every cell of my body. After that first day, and with daily practice, my mind became as sharp as a needle’s point. It is the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
Wrong Stop
“Assistance, please.” A couple of individuals pointed electronic devices in his direction, but the visitor remained locked in time and space. “I need to leave. The guide said that everyone…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
Close
“Perhaps,” she says, “that young man had been in a great deal of trouble in the past, and Doyle was trying to determine a recommendation for sentencing.” “I couldn’t…