Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox Writing Contest
An Old Salt
“Look,” my wife says, “they don’t go all the way under.” I see but am not relieved. “They lock you inside,” I say. “They close the hatch after everyone’s stuffed…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox Writing Contest
Threshold
Been missing summer mornings Kicked back on the saggy futon Tank tops and tube socks Blowing the AC Shoulders icy to the touch We threw open the windows Someone put…
Bamboo Shoots breeze
Post-Pandemic
They are five young shower trees Aligned on Auahi Street, fearlessly Blossoming outside Salt in late June’s Heat, full in their belief that they always Will be so…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Ox Writing Contest
July 2021 Year of the Ox Writing Prompt Suggestions
Here are the prompts for July. There is no specific word count this month. Write a piece as long or as short as you like. Again, the suggested prompts may…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox Writing Contest
When The Veil Flutters
When the veil between the past and present flutters I see the source of my healing touch and intuitive reading I see my fear of being in the water Waves…
Bamboo Shoots breeze
A very rough draft of ON HE RODE — Chapter Thirty-Eight
“The whole damn thing about God, if He exists,” I say to Mardi, rudely pointing my Lone Star longneck, “is that, if He exists, we need to take that into…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox Writing Contest
Church Service (250 words)
As a youngster I was dragged to Sunday service, sat brooding in a middling distance pew, wedged amongst my mother, grandmother, and sister, jerking awake against the pastor’s droning tide….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox Writing Contest
Real Courage
is born in times of desperate necessity, given shape by a growing ambition and substance by opportunity. Grandfather grew to young adulthood in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, then a U.S. Commonwealth…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox Writing Contest
Today
Let today be an exceptionally special day in an oh so normal mundane way let us look at everything with wide open eyes let the common be an exciting surprise…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox Writing Contest
THE ALTERNATIVE (250 words)
It’s true. I recommended the age-old old-age topic to the Buckaroo. Cocky me thought I could write a piece so full of longevity’s rewards as to inspire universal admiration and…