Letter From the Editor
Editor’s Note
By Emma Wood
Fiction
The Fall
By Ananya Nigam, Art by Claire Lu
A leaf wonders why it must eventually fall
Fiction
Awaiting a Letter
By Lila C. Kassouf, Art by Keira Callahan
Celeste sets out to find a bank robber—but ends up solving a mystery about her mother instead
Fiction
Treason: What’s That?
By Anonymous
A five-year-old boy desperate for food unknowingly makes a terrible mistake
Fiction
The Trials and Tribulations of Swifty Appledoe (Part Two)
By Ariana Kralicek, Art by Sage Millen
This is the second installation of a novella that we are publishing in three parts in the April, May, and June 2021 issues of Stone Soup.
Fiction
Ripples in the Pond
By Karen Susanto, Art by Grace Gorzelany
Humans interrupt a peaceful day in the forest
Memoir
The Bakery
By Rubina Davila
A visit to a favorite Los Angeles bakery sparks a series of memories about the writer’s family
Poems
My heart
By Aya David-Ramati
Poems
Speak
By Suhani Pandya
Art
Crooked Shadows
By Claire Lu
Art
Hat Girl
By Keira Callahan
Art
Perspective
By Grace Williams
Art
Girl in the Sun
By Sage Millen
Art
Untitled
By Anonymous (Refugee Project)
Art
Shoes
By Anonymous (Refugee Project)
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Highlights from Stonesoup.com
By Lauren Minyoung Yoon