Stone Soup Magazine: May 2019

Stone Soup Magazine, May 2019 (Volume 47, Issue 5)

CONTENTS

FICTION

5 Twenty Questions, Twenty Answers by Anna Shepherd

An infuriating game of twenty questions pushes Jenny to scour her childhood memories

12 Magnificent City by Ziqing (Izzie) Peng

Something beautiful for us might be poisonous for others

17 Two Princes by Lia Taylor

When his father, the king, asks him to choose a wife, Prince Richard realizes he can’t marry a woman

29 Gone Fishing by Mia Fang

When Lily’s father loses his job, he enlists in the army to support his family

POETRY

14 Numbers by Patrick Lusa

15 The Sky by Patrick Lusa

ART

Cover: Lady in the Willows by the River by Mia Fang

4 Bird in the Clouds by Hannah Parker

10 Love Stone by Tatiana Hadzic

13 Cranes and Christmas Tree by Nicholas Taplitz

16 Shadow in the Sun by Isha Narang

PORTRAITS: a multi–artist portfolio

22 Editor’s Introduction

23 In Through One Ear and Out the Other

by Sritanvee Alluri

24 Woman Standing Against a Blue Wall by Amalia Ichilov

25 Freckled Young Woman by Amalia Ichilov

26 Ernie by Leo Melinsky

27 Hazel by Leo Melinsky

28 The Queen by Isabella Webb

34 HONOR ROLL