The Plentitudes | A Quarterly International Literary Magazine

The Bond

WINTER 2023 - Issue #9

Daniel W.K. Lee

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

If Tradition Applies

By Daniel W.K. Lee / Poetry / I wonder if there will ever again be a child named Katrina here inside this sickle of the Mississippi or...

Robin Gow

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

graveyard

By Robin Gow / Poetry / graveyard is the whole apartment building & inside of the refrigerator & inside of every cupboard. we put shovels...

Lena Hari

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

The Father Tree

By Lena Hari / Fiction / Matteo’s hands, rough, raw, and badly bleeding, worked to turn the burnt earth. The fires were still burning in...

Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

Snoopy Band-Aid

By Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias / Poetry / You hear yourself echo inside her. Knock, knock. It’s me, baby Dionysus. Look at that...

Judy Peres

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

The Bridge

By Judy Peres / Nonfiction / The passenger terminal at the Allenby Bridge in 1995 looked like any other Israeli government office. Seats...

Nicole Tiao

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

Rose

By Nicole Tiao / Poetry / I don’t understand why the sun keeps dipping below the horizon, spinning the sky into pinks and oranges and reds...

Lesley Younge

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

Where She Was Nourished

By Lesley Younge / Poetry / The last day of silence, of retreat, of respite brings a challenge: a solo hike in a forest 9,000 feet above...

Cassidy McCants

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

Smiling in Igneous

By Cassidy McCants / Fiction / What kind of beauty lies latent? Dormant? In the morning you walk outside to see gray. A haze that doesn’t...

John Muro

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

Bequeathed

By John Muro / Poetry / I leave to you, my only daughter, this wedding ring of orange-blossom design, golden-hued, and etched by water,...

J.M. Amoroso

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

Pappa

By J.M. Amoroso / Fiction / I lose my soul in the mirror every day. I give it a year, maybe two if I’m lucky, before I face the dreaded...

Finley Williams

Dec 26, 2022

Winter 2023

Conversations We Haven't Had

By Finley Williams / Nonfiction / I. Granny never talked about her late husband, my maternal grandfather. I know him mostly through a...

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3: The Montage

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2: The Warrior

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