An idyllic evening on a lake sparks newfound clarity in the narrator Grass enclosed my feet with every step I took. The sky was pigmented blue, newer than my eyes had ever seen before. The paddleboard meandered with me to the sweet, blue lake, so unblemished that, for moments at a time, I could catch […]
September 2022
Frozen in the Aisle
from Remember the Flowers Winner (Poetry) of the 2021 Stone Soup Book Contest All I knew of the cold was the grocery store— the frozen food aisle where we shivered in our T-shirts while Umma piled gluten-free pizza into our cart, the cardboard covered in frost, disguising the image of promised tomatoes that would thaw […]
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From the Stone Soup Blog Smartphone Addiction: One Middle Schooler’s Perspective When I look at my classmates’ faces, absorbed in their smartphones, they look eerily expressionless, even hollow. Their eyes look tired and droopy; their faces look drained and sulking. They look like they have no choice. It is almost as if they are compelled […]
