Savior
Sitting on a plane, just three-years-old, I asked my mother: are we in heaven? She said: no, I don’t believe in heaven. Three years later, I said my first prayer. Not to god, but to the earth, I prayed: please make my mother stop crying. She
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What scratches inside a thing?
Love is twofold. The burning taste of new, and the slow, steady work of revision. At the kitchen table, stitching back former selves. The familiar gesture of putting saliva on a ladder down the pantyhose. Then, a drop of nail polish to preserve the elusive.
Soul Leaving The Body
K. Johnson Bowles has exhibited in more than 80 solo and group exhibitions nationally. Feature articles, essays, and reviews of her work have appeared in 40 publications around the country including SPOT (Houston Center for Photography), Sculpture, Fiberarts, and the Houston Post. She is the
Samarkand Women
Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and avid traveler based out of Southern California. He likes to travel light and shoot handheld. His travels have taken him to over eighty countries spread across five continents. His photography has been published internationally, in both digital and
The Makeover
George L Stein is a writer and photographer in the New Jersey/New York metropolitan area. Interest in monochrome, film and digital photography and urban decay/architectural subject matter has come to include street photography, fashion, fetish, collage, and oppositiional/juxtapositional projects in digital format. His work has
Retreat
TK Saeed is a self-taught intuitive artist primarily working in acrylics, inks and pastels. She is based in the UK and originally from a legal background. Her artwork has previously been featured in Alchemy Magazine. In 2010, she exhibited her paintings at a regional art
Alchemical Bride 24 (Sojourner Truth)
Tatiana Garmendia is a figurative artist with a conceptual twist. Her work synthesizes formal concerns and a humanist engagement with history and culture. “History is not a subject I just picked up from a dusty schoolbook, but things I’ve actually lived. I remember playing in
Scour
J.E. Crum is a fantastical artist who creates vividly abstracted variations of self-portraits inspired by mythologies such as dragons and mermaids – just to name a few. Working intuitively, Crum creates personal narratives related to thoughts about fate, destiny and the meaning of dreams. J.E.
The Californian
It was only true because people believed it. “There has to be a reason.” “An explanation.” “Yes—as to why.” In normal years the region was pleasant by summer. Temperatures were mild. Storms came over the high mountains, snow-covered through summer, and watered the hills around