Stone Soup Magazine

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A child's plea to be forgotten transforms everyday details—soup, Fruit Loops, a voice that travels through walls—into a meditation on presence and erasure.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A meditation on impossibility and perception, where belief and action create paradoxes, and inner vision doesn't match outer reality.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — Three parks compete to be the best, each amazing in its own way, fighting daily for supremacy while pleasing children who don't understand the rivalry.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A robot travels the world—from beaches to northern lights to hailstorms—waiting for someone to call, revealing loneliness through its metal body and computer brain.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A cat's protective fury over its belly transforms into a meditation on violence that no one—not Earth, not people, not even the cat—truly wants.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A playful meditation on hair elastics transforms a mundane object into something magical, capturing the physical sensation of summer heat and the relief of pulling hair back.

Poetry·Analise Braddock — You may be big You might have beauty You pull your face you smear your lips To look pretty Are you sure that is the right word More like vain

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A child's poem transforms an empty mansion into a haunted space through accumulating details of abandonment and decay.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A young writer imagines a digital universe with corrupted code 719, where trees shake and reality glitches as everything falls apart.

Poetry·Analise Braddock — Spin! Spins the disk Confetti in my face Swing my leg Beg to stop With a colorful song Mouth worn out shoes We dance in dread till we are read...