Congratulations to Rbibeau, Piihonua(On faith. Really hope you provide a translation for those who do not know Hawaiian, so we can learn), Homelessinhonolulu, Darrel, and Categable. You’re all winners this…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Dog
Full Moon at Sunset
Full Moon at Sunset After the nuclear explosion, light filtered through the clouds’ soft focus, an exquisite, violet sky darkening to rouge at the border of the hills. The surface…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Chinese New Year
—Uncle, when is Chinese New Year? “Ah-so, little Gas-hoppah. Lemme consult my calendah…” —You gotta consult da lunar calendar? “All kine calendar gotta consult. Chinese New Year sometimes January, sometimes…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
A Valentine
A Valentine Upon the broad leaf Of the autograph tree Volumes, whole libraries on love
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
He Hoanoho No – 100 words
ʻO keia hoanoho, he manu lele loa, he manu huakaʻi loa, a he manu loli lole. Halihali wale ʻia kona kino liʻiliʻi e na makani nui e pa mai ana…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Falling in Love
Falling in Love Falling in love is when you find someone who loves sushi as you do and you could spend hours talking about sushi and translate those moments into…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
The Language of Snowbirds
How your stocks doing? Where we going for dinner? What the doctor say?
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Just Desserts
Vanilla: Jim doesn’t have a cell phone. Shuns the dark side. Jim’s privacy, for nowadays, is greater than most. Strawberry: Dick Cheney called Edward Snowden a traitor. Snowden considered that…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
8:07 a.m., Saturday, January 13, 2018 Dogs somewhere up the valley — three of them, if I hear correctly. One hammers its bark, bark, bark drumbeat; another moans its sotto…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for General
Rules and themes for the February writing contest : )
Okay, it’s a new month and a new chance to publish your great work. Remember, you never know. One of your pieces may get published in a future issue of…