"I swore to not burn my hands this year." – 100 words
Bamboo Shoots offshoot
From BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 20, Fall 1983, Last Quarter: Kauaʻi Issue
A Visitor from Alaska by Ben Asakura The first time I saw it was on a very warm Saturday afternoon in September, perhaps in 1974. Our foursome was walking single file on the path leading from the first green to the distant second tee at the Wailua Golf Course, pulling our golf carts behind…
Bamboo Shoots offshoot
From BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 19, Summer 83, Full Moon
Riding the North Point Ferry by Wing Tek Lum Wrinkles: like valleys etched by glaciers lumbering coarse and deliberate, random traces pointing to that vast, dark sea. The skin is an ochre of old corn, with splotches of burnt embers from a summer of mountain fires. The brown from a lifetime of tea or…
Bamboo Shoots awards
WooooHoooo! October Winners in The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 Contest : )
Congratulations to all the October winners in The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 Contest. They’ve each won 10 Bamboo Bucks they can redeem in the BR online store. Here are all the October winners and the names of the awards they’ve won: Da mos Sometimes I Wish My Sistah Was One Puppy…
Bamboo Shoots
A Minor English Major
November Fishing and Wishing 100 – 100 contest entry: 1602 words, 100 lines. For all English majors ever.
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Fishing100
November Writing Theme Choices for The Great BR Fishing & Wishing Contest : )
The November writing theme choices — with the exception of the last two — are inspired by BR issues #17 and #18. Note: For further creative inspiration, if you'd like to read the pieces used for the theme choices, you can find them here: “Watching Fire,” by Mary Wakayama “Nostalgia,” by Ty Pak So I…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Fishing100
We Go Together
I love my sisters very much. When I’m not with them I feel empty inside, like a piece of me is lost. So when I saw the topic I was excited to write a little about them.
(Theme #7 Sisters, 100 words)
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Fishing100
Moving out
I don't like it here. Going to the mainland for college. 100 words.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Fishing100
testing
my lover — 100 words.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Fishing100
I Heard Enough
”Sorry” isn’t going to cut it this time around.
Theme: Tired of hearing it
Word count: 100