— Creative writing, as a term, was invented in the 19th century to express the idea that there was writing, and then there was creative writing. With use, the expression has...
— Analogy is a very powerful literary tool. It is hard to imagine what it feels like for someone else to have lots of competing thoughts in their head, but when...
— Lots of girls dream of horses. And there are lots of stories about horse-loving girls. What makes this story special, The Horse’s Reins, by Nicholas La Cortiglia, is how Nicholas,...
— This story, told from the point of view of the first person, is short but wound tight, like a spring. The story flows from beginning to end, concluding in a...
— Experiencing Home by Yodit Lemma War and Peace. It has always been true that somewhere in the world there has been war and in other parts there has been peace....
— Originally published in Stone Soup Magazine, September/October 1994 Special thanks to Sheila Crane, who taught in Emil’s school in Rundu, for sending us his work.
— First published on the cover of Stone Soup Magazine, March/April 1993 “Divided Island,” by Sofia Kakoulli, age 11, of Cyprus, is part of the Children’s Art Foundation’s permanent collection. Sofia was...
— In Part One, Mrs. Davids happily starts her teaching job and marries a doctor. Three years later, she is no longer happy; her husband has left home one day and never come back....
— I live in Vietnam. I went to school in Saigon. I has one cat. I has four brother, no sister. My mother selling in her own store. My father was...
— I was born on October 31, 1972 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I was very young when my country was in trouble in 1975. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge (the Communist...