Plato's Caves online

03/05/2026

"From the anxiety of delayed grocery deliveries to the quiet failure of keeping a spider plant alive, and even to the act of conversing with utensils in moments of solitude, Bhumika R’s Night of the Red Crackers (2026) captures the fragile textures of everyday life with striking familiarity."

Madhurima Nargis reviews Night of the Red Crackers by Bhumika Rajan

“If the system cannot recognize you, do you still exist?” There is a growing sense of uncanniness that defines contemporary existence, an anxious, restless condition where one is constantly chasing…

25/04/2026

"Feels like spring

Feels like joy

-Acknowledged-

I think we can

Shall we?"

Poems by Isabelle Audiger for Plato's Caves online

https://platoscavesonline.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/two-poems-by-isabelle-audiger/

Tokyo P**n Vertical, thick rain A grey curtain is slowly falling The moon is on the rise Invisible My skin knows City lights twinkle I dive into the night The sweet Tokyo rain Swallows me Invisible…

18/04/2026

"In time, she turns into a cautionary tale of a girl who read too much, who lived in a fantasy world of her own imagination and let herself drift too far. Believed the dreams and memories are real and magic does exist in this mundane world."
To know more about this girl, read Shobhita Thakur's short story for Plato's Caves online :

BHUMI The wheels of the stretcher rattle rapidly through the crowded hospital corridor, Bhumi lying on it in a fragile haze of near unconsciousness. Her super-thin, young body, barely eighteen, can…

14/04/2026

"My hair sifts a snowy white
today, when even midwinter
longs for the diamond sheen

of lost ice."

Poems by Donna Pucciani for Plato's Caves online

https://platoscavesonline.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/poems-by-donna-pucciani/

Elegy for Winter God is on vacationin some hot climeof palm trees and beaches,searching for a placeto go when Miami sinksinto the sea.Here in the Heartland,what used to be a time for sledding down …

06/04/2026

"You smell of lavender, we tell our lovers and rub our noses on their shut eyelids. Un-see the destruction, un-see death, we chant. Are you sleepy? We ask. Nope, they mutter. We touch their earlobes with our warm, red noses. Un-hear the bang, un-hear the piercing sirens, we pull them closer and pat them on their backs. We plant kisses on one side of their faces as one plants saplings in a row on one side of a driveway."

Enjoy the wonders of PoPo Land with Shrutidhora P. Mohor Plato's Caves online

https://platoscavesonline.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/short-fiction-by-shrutidhora-p-mohor/

In our PoPo land we have built our homes (no matter what they call these, we say “home”, we insist, in fact) with cute and crazy kittens who grin and wink at each other, (come and see them one day,…

23/03/2026

"eventually they forgot –
the coarseness of verbal abuse
the trickery of its seduction
the con of its half truths"...

Poems by P. D. Lyons for Plato's Caves online

https://platoscavesonline.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/poems-by-pd-lyons/

the virus they once called language* the people who had cured themselvesfrom the virus they once called languagecommunicated eloquentlywith their handswith their armswith their skin colourwith thei…

23/03/2026

Read on friends...

From Dhurandhar’s Rahman Dakait to Shaurya’s Rudra Pratap Singh, Abin Chakraborty delves into Miltonic rhetoric to explore social media trends of heroism celebrated without moral rectitude.

23/03/2026

Please have a read...

How to Resist a Postmodern Zombification
From DHURANDAR’s Rahman Dakait to SHAURYA’s Rudra Pratap Singh, Plato's Caves online delves into Miltonic rhetoric to explore social media trends of heroism celebrated without moral rectitude.

https://www.thechakkar.com/home/postmodernzombification

08/03/2026

On the Plato's Caves online presents a flash fiction by Shubhangi on a woman in a room:

https://platoscavesonline.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/flash-fiction-from-shubhangi/

A New Idea It was an unusually quiet evening, with the first light snow softly falling outside. My terrible husband was off somewhere, engaged in who-knows-what, while Beanie, my dog, was likely ha…

02/03/2026

"You still don’t know that even when clouds leave

they’re never gone and on days when skies turn blue

they conspire and re-form"

Poems by SR Inciardi, in Plato's Caves online

https://platoscavesonline.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/poems-by-sr-inciardi/

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Clouds   After he was gone you said this wouldn’t last and reminded me clouds rotate make their rounds peak at night then move on—so you said so I believed.   And you said each w…

23/02/2026

"people sink into your skin
while they cook something delicious
and you set the table for them."

Poems by Pablo Andres Rial in Plato's Caves online

https://platoscavesonline.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/poems-by-pablo-andres-rial/