The Plentitudes | A Quarterly International Literary Magazine

The Hourglass

summer issue No.11

Fiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

by GENRE

summer issue:

The HOURGLASS

by Issue

Sarah Bradley

Summer 2023

Sylvia

By Sarah Bradley / Fiction / She found the place without too much trouble, though she wouldn’t have known this was Chinatown if Charlie...

Sherry Shahan

Summer 2023

SAD (Seasonal Affect Disorder)

By Sherry Shahan / Poetry / the calendar’s voice is dark / even brine salt is gray / an endless hourglass / gray goes black / it...

Mark Martin

Summer 2023

Changeling

By Mark Martin / Fiction / The four of them—two adults and two children—languished in a parked car held immobile by the rain. The weather...

Kenny C H Yu

Summer 2023

My/sOUR Room

By Kenny C. H. Yu / Nonfiction / My wine room—or writing room, or just a room—was located in an old industrial building. There was a...

Frederick Pollack

Summer 2023

Quantum Island

By Frederick Pollack / Poetry / We have reached the smallest place. The crew doesn’t understand my plan, my map— they think some...

William Luvaas

Summer 2023

A Cluttered Brain

By William Luvaas / Nonfiction / We all harbor multiple selves. Freud recognized this in his Id, ego, superego paradigm: unbridled...

Russ López

Summer 2023

Eurydice at the Medianoche Saloon

By Russ López / Fiction / Even before Orpheus’s band was hired to play at the Medianoche Saloon, the dance club was packed. The crowds...

Caio Major

Summer 2023

Transition Philistine

By Caio Major / Nonfiction / Riding in the passenger seat of my first boyfriend’s truck, either shortly before or shortly after we made...

Emma Bolden

Summer 2023

the eleusinian mysteries

By Emma Bolden / Poetry / the problem with daughters is they must also be people & the problem with people is some must also be daughters...

11: The Hourglass

10: The Prizes

9: The Bond

8: The Door

7: The Years

6: The Vision

5: The Lake

4: The Bridge

3: The Montage

2: The Warrior

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The Hourglass

summer issue No.11

Fiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

by GENRE

summer issue:

The HOURGLASS

by Issue

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11: The Hourglass

10: The Prizes

9: The Bond

8: The Door

7: The Years

6: The Vision

5: The Lake

4: The Bridge

3: The Montage

2: The Warrior

1: The Guesthouse