Light Chemical Sea

Jenny Wong peeks into the lives of characters caught in lighthouses, subways, shorelines, Walmart aisles, and airports. With a talent for lingering and looking, with the elemental precision of a poet, her small mosaics imbue the quotidian with quiet wonder. The international traveler, the preteen chemistry student, and the perimenopausal millennial who spends her days in the sun are trail guides for landscapes saturated with solitude and vastness, the whispers of ancestors and the ironies of aging.  Light Chemical Sea  reports back from the transpacific diaspora, glimpsing into the liminal pause between what happened and what happens next.

Jenny Wong is a writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Her favorite places to wander are Tokyo alleys, Singapore hawker centers, and Parisian cemeteries. Her work was selected for Best Microfiction 2025 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net Anthology, Best Small Fiction Awards, Best Microfiction, and The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written). Her debut poetry chapbook is Shiftings & Other Coordinates of Disorder (Pinhole Poetry, 2024). She resides in Calgary, Alberta near the Rocky Mountains where she makes short poetry films and plans her ne

Limbo LIGHT Ceiling Remediation Scheduled for Subway Platform A Polygon The Cartographers A Warning of Incoming Tides At Gig Harbor The Evening Habits of Lora, Age 89 The Night Gardener When She Thinks About Auroras On a Cliff Overlooking an Empty Golf Course When I Let the Dog Out in the Middle of the Night In the Small Corners of Overlapping Dreams Highway CHEMICAL 4 - Be - Beryllium 8 - O - Oxygen 12 - Mg - Magnesium 16 - S - Sulfur 20 - Ca - Calcium 24 - Cr - Chromium 3 7 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 19 21 23 25 29 30 31 32 33 34 28 - Ni - Nickel 32 - Ge - Germanium 36 - Kr - Krypton 40 - Zr - Zirconium 44 - Ru - Ruthenium 48 - Cd - Cadmium SEA Lightning Warns of an Anxious Sky There is a Garden Inside My Mitochondria Fragments of Autumn at Glacier Lake At Oldman River The Drowning Venetia When Water Returns to the Salt Edged Shore A Drowning on Dry Land The Collector of Bourlanda Alley The Page-A-Day Calendar Boca do Inferno Singapore Changi Airport at 2am Acknowledgments About the Author