Stone Soup Magazine
— A girl's excitement about becoming a big sister turns to grief when her mother miscarries, teaching her about loss and the fragility of hope.
— A young writer confronts human hypocrisy and self-righteousness, building to the admission that we're all guilty of the stupidity we see in others.
— A girl waits in a sweltering car while her mother fights with broken gas pumps, her stream-of-consciousness revealing the death of her brother Joel and her parents' bitter divorce.
— I wake up on that side of bed. My leg’s my arm, My arm’s my head.
— When Mike disappears from school, detectives follow clues through a haunted palace and time machine to rescue him from the Stone Age.