Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Get Ready
There were six of us in that first group admitted to the Ph.D. program in English at UH Manoa. Two of us were local born and bred. I was the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
I WISH I HADN’T WISHED
When you wish for something hard enough, you just might get it. Then comes the part about how hard you thought about what happens next, as in being careful what…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
On He Rode — Chapter three
Next morning I’m hacksawing the x-brace separating the back seat from the trunk and measuring that space for an Army Surplus cot mattress, a perfect fit. Then the Salvation Army…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Nighthawks
When you wish hard enough for something, you might get it. It was getting late, and I moved over to a barstool to tell her that I was in the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Broken Wings
Broken Wings You can find these people with broken wings who were once angels but flew too close to the ground touched the earth with tips of their wings and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
There goes the neighbors
“Yessir, that’s the way it goes,” Dad declared. “Sooner or later come our turn.” Mom and Dad had participated in a graveside memorialization yesterday for a recently deceased neighbor at…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
“So what da buggah said?”
“So what da buggah said?” Rudy the barber asks me. “Some bullshit about Denise and Chris.” I’m waiting for a haircut. Out of the corner of my eye, I see…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for General
Okay, we’re changing it up for the July writing contest : )
Aha! Tell me you were expecting that you could write a haiku, 100-word, or 1000-word piece this month. That I’d list a bunch of themes. You were thinking that, right?…
Bamboo Shoots awards
Holy S**t! June writing contest winners : )
Okay, it’s obvious you folks are all cooking with gas now. Doreen B., I wanted to give you thirty Bamboo Bucks this time, but I talked to my bosses and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Burning Rock Pages
Hanau ka Uku-koʻakʻ’a Hanau kana, he ʻAkoʻakoʻa, puka Born the coral polyp Born of him a coral colony emerged From the Kumulipo The Kumulipo is a Hawaiian creation chant composed…