On Passing
Alchemy, 2025
Non-fiction by Rahim Welch-Lucier (Alchemy Editor)
I pass people I recognize on the train sometimes.
I’m never sure how to feel about that. I knew...
Winter Market
Alchemy, 2025
Poem by Kati Kim (Alchemy Editor)
Bundled browsers sip sweet bitter brew, scents of smoke and chocolate,
crowds sample speared slices of crisp pink spheres,...
Wayne, NJ
Alchemy, 2025
Non-fiction by Anthony Guerra (Alchemy Editor)
Rest Stop: Newton, no, Wayne, NJ, 2:41 am:
We had smoked the morning away joint by joint.
This morning slugged...
Fiending for Scraps
Alchemy, 2025
Fiction by Kamea Gray (Alchemy Editor)
A sharp voice cut through the wind. “Come closer. We can’t hear what you’re saying.”
The boy moved slowly, feet...
Estate Sales
Alchemy, 2025
Non-fiction by Svetlana Tomlin (Alchemy Editor)
There are a lot of things in the US that surprise a foreigner, such as a cleaning product powered by...
Whalefall
Alchemy, 2025
Poem by Cassius Wolfstar (Alchemy Editor)
I’m shedding my skin, and not graceful and all at once like a snake— more like how a whale's skin...
In the End
The Bellwether Review, 2024
Poem by David P. Sterner
How will they live once they’ve all returned with tales of the dead and villages burned?
Will they proudly speak
we create our own coming of age
Alchemy, 2024
Poem by Jae Nichelle
we1 create2 our3 own4 coming5 of6 age7
?first of the names we gave ourselves
?dark-tinted visions, angle
?limbs...
Untitled
Alchemy, 2023
Artwork by Joy Nguyen
Both Ends: The Long Distance of Happiness and Sorrow
Groundswell, 2023
Non-fiction by Stanley Briones
You are close enough to make me feel home, yet you are so far away to make me feel lonely....
