Curriculum· — Choose one of these proverbs, and write a story in which the opposite is true: “A stitch in time saves nine” “The early bird catches the worm” “A problem shared...

Stories·Josh Elman — The Candle Candle, candle, glimmering bright, like crimson leaves, a shining light, colors illuminating autumn’s night. Wax as white as winter snow drips like raindrops from the sky down the...

Stories·Lina Kim — I pushed the charred curtain out of the way as I stepped outside. The ground was blackened with the ash of everything that was destroyed. Bones littered the ground. Smoke...

Stories·Emma Hoff — Fear of Drowning I was flying. It felt like I was floating on the water,but this time without sinking in, without coming up coughing and spitting. I didn’t know howto...

Stories·tilly marlow — The horse The horse sped through the halcyon forest heading to a calamitously clandestine destination derived from betrayal, hidden from the hatred of all. Some called the horse heroic –...

Video· — In this series of three time lapse videos originally sent to us as part of the April Flash Contest, blogger BlueJay brings a unique style to the genre of food...

Writing Workshop· — An update from our tenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop led by contributors Liam Hancock, 13, and Madeline Kline, 13, held on Saturday June 19,...

Book Club· — An update from our twenty-eighth Book Club meeting! On June 26, the Stone Soup Book Club met for its last meeting in this session. We discussed The Jumbies, by Tracey...

Stories·Svitra Rajkumar — Rose was running. Although she didn’t know what shewas running from and where she was going, she just couldn’t stop running. Her heart poundedlike it was going to burst out...

Editorial· — A shadow is behind each step I take. When you see your shadow, it means you’re in darkness. When you don’t, it means you’re in light. America before was in...