Okay, if you haven’t memorized the guidelines already, remember that you can write a haiku or you can write a piece that is EXACTLY 100 words or you can write…
Bamboo Shoots awards
April writing contest winners : )
Year of the writers! Congratulations to Jim Harstad and Rbibeu. You are the April winners in the Great Bamboo Ridge Year of the Dog Writing Contest. As usual, you receive…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
A Bird in Hand
A Bird in Hand On a cloudless summer day she flew into my life and rested her head in my hand with the weight of a butterfly. She spoke of…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Kau Yuk
You play basketball eh? Yeah, but we junk. I evah told you our basketball team went from last place to first? Cause of Kau Yuk. Like da red pork? Dats…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
An Invisible Sense of Connection
The weather forecast called for thunder storms. An ominous beginning for an outdoor nuptial ceremony. Dawn emerges with light showers. By mid-morning, light bursts through a rift in the clouds….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Change? What Change?
In some old boxes of stuff I haven’t looked at for decades, I find a small packet of pristine snapshots, six altogether, of a much-younger me. It surprises me to…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Ghost
Rain drizzled outside the window. How much? It’s $200. He looked back at her. Do you want it all now? She shook her head. No. Then is okay. And only…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for General
Da good ole rules fo da April writing contes : )
Eh, we get some writers now, uh? Everybody cooking wit gas. So how dis sound to you? Dis month you can write — tree guesses and two no count —…
Bamboo Shoots awards
March winners in The Year of the Dog Writing Contest : )
Congratulations to the hometown team, Doreen B., Homelessinhonolulu, Jim Harstad, and Darrel. You are all our winners for March. As usual you have each won ten sacred Bamboo Bucks to…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Helping Ah Po to Her Feet
Long time ago, girls only good fo marry off. Like one ox. Can work or can sell. If you no can work, you gotta marry. Maybe if his family rich,…