Stone Soup Magazine

Poetry·Lucy Hurwitz — I wake up on that side of bed. My leg’s my arm, My arm’s my head.

Story·Panagiotis Apatsidis Gunaratnam, age 9 — When Mike disappears from school, detectives follow clues through a haunted palace and time machine to rescue him from the Stone Age.

Artwork·Caitlin Goh

Artwork·Analise Braddock

Artwork·Analise Braddock

Poetry·Eli Nimchonok — Some wars lead to the ancient Egypt story that keeps on going It is so ancient it’s God in heaven with the sun and moon When the cell comes you...

Poetry·Eli Nimchonok — The mind is birthed in the day but in the night it is silent Every day the mind has a memory and removes the math When the mind music comes...

Story·Jamison Freis, age 12 — A boy gets a dog his mother hates. After the mother repeatedly tries to abandon the dog, it saves her from a mugger, changing her heart.

Artwork·Parinita Chandrashekar

Personal Narrative·Beatriz Lindemann, age 12 — A 12-year-old defends her two-dad family through memories of ballet recitals, newspaper rituals, and playground confrontations, asserting that both men are her 'actual dads.'