Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat -- July Contest
Pest Pairing
Your soul may not yet yearn for it, but it will remain preserved in your imagination. Not be be outdone, cockroach juice can be boiled and brewed–served with ice and…
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March 2023 Year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
Three very important things to keep in mind. First, these prompts can act as springboards for you. Use them to go somewhere or feel free to ignore them completely and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for February 2023 Year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts : )
Blue Elephant Down / Blue Elephant Up
Blue Elephant (down) I’m not into tattoos. The first thing I ask a woman who’s interested in taking a relationship further is if she’s got any. If she says ‘yes,’…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for February 2023 Year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts : )
Honolulu Tide Pools (Correct Submission)
At 4 I was given a dip net and catch bucket. The net’s wooden handle kept me at arms length from the creatures I scooped up, while the bucket had…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for February 2023 Year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts : )
A Life/A Life Revisited
A Life Paper waterfall A mountain of scraps slides downward Unreadable handwritten notes Yellowed newsprint Forgotten bills and receipts Recipes torn from magazines I was so inspired Books buried among…
Prompt: Feed your demons/ malasadas Bottom Up (demons first) If you feed your demons a dozen malasadas they will want a dozen manapuas to balance out the sweet; a…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for February 2023 Year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts : )
Kumulipo Redux (Top Down/Bottom Up)
Along coastline communities with their climate-controlled gyms and apocalyptic landscapes The rising water of Monsoons and High Noons that batter the island Through covered connections to structural seduction of kosher,…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for February 2023 Year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts : )
Passing / Passing Backwards
Passing It read, “The dead know nothing the living won’t find out sooner or later.” And you sure don’t envy them, she thought, for having earned that one leg up….
Okie Dokie, Happy February to all you writers out there in, er, writerland. First off, have you checked over under the blogs to see if you won10 Bamboo Bucks for…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rabbit -- January 2023 Writing Contest
Bet (100 words, 50 words)
Bet (100 words) “Do it,” was the last thing my grandmother ever said to me. 24 hours later, she was dead; slipped away in her sleep, joining my grandfather in…