Images Visual Arts & Literary Magazine Vol. 2

She sits at the chair of her new desk, covered in dust. The whole tower sinks in it, Suffocating her, Drowning her out in the dry...

Golden sands, turquoise streams, The world of time unfolds in a forgotten dream, A breath of fire, a touch of air, Alchemy spins the fate...

In the midst of an ominous, foreboding, room, Beheld a cauldron, filled with gloom Four elements: fire, water, earth, and air,to mix...

He wished on the brightest stars and the deepest oceans, the wildest winds and the strongest trees. He wished harder than he'd ever...

In a meadow bright and fair,  A caterpillar crawls with care.  It munches leaves, then spins a thread,  In a cocoon, it rests its head. ...

Rubert is essentially the god of the village. Distanced from every other individual by the skills he bore from a young age, Rubert stands...

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Pericles Dr. Studor sat...

In a room full of ash, smoke fills the air like burning fire I wander around, pages fluttering, as I search for the final note My shoes...

They told me the first Law of Alchemy is “Equivalent Exchange.” That everything has a cost. In exchange for something, something of equal...

Stuffed in a cupboard, above the hot oven, Lie the unique chemicals to an endless set of solutions Stuffed in a fridge, sitting close by,...

Beside me: the silver watch your mother gave me last winter, now covered with a thin veneer of golden dust. The earrings you wore on our...

Green and blistering, bubbling and boiling,  A great, giant, mysterious  inky bowl stares at me  With an irrefutable, irresistible sneer....

I arrive into the world with a big, bright smile on my face. The world is my oyster and I am the new, shiny pearl it produced. As I...

Although alchemy is a pseudo science, after more research into the topic, it makes sense why our predecessors believed in it. The laws of...

Autumn is the time of death. I hear leaves crunch, lifeless as my heart blackens, becoming one with rot and soil. The sound of death is...

Tip the bottle back, take a swig Swirl it around, “tastes like fig” This change cannot be hidden by a wig Your muscles grow, your body...

We all have that one person from our past that's transformed our view of life. Whether it’s a best friend from grade school, a teacher,...

Flour drifts and floats in the air Mama wipes it from her hair Water, yeast, and a touch of salt Is all it needs, to become a vault Her...

She walks alone on desolate shores, her feet no longer feeling the bitter floors. Dispelled, trapped, exiled, to a foreign land, She...

The purpose of all stays, Nothing is perfect but it should strive to  improve, And this shall forever stay true, The Alchemist enforces,...

An online forum prompted me to explore an archaic computer algorithm to solve a mystery. While scrolling through what seemed to be an...

The Prisoner  Time freezes.  The void echoing all around him,  in magnitude and continuum,  just  amplifies the vacancy of his thoughts, ...

It is uncommon to see one who has vastly changed Often, we see those as ones who are deranged However, the process of change and...

I am troubled and blinded. Something must be done to subside it.  A potion should do the trick. As long as I act quick. I flip through a...

So elegant and pure,  A boy of fire and a girl of light, Forged in molten white. Through every crack, through every ache, Like specs of...

In ancient times, where secrets dwell, A craft if winder, none could quell. With elements and mystic lore,  Alchemy sought to transform...

In a little shop so old and bright, An alchemist worked late at night.  With books and bottles, pots and stream, He tries to make a...

I don’t remember the blessing of my birth, But I do remember the curse that comes after, Living, Breathing, Running, Eating, Praying, For...