Stone Soup Magazine
— 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.
— A meditation on impossibility and perception, where belief and action create paradoxes, and inner vision doesn't match outer reality.
— 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.
— 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.
— 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.
— 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.
— 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
— A child's poem transforms an empty mansion into a haunted space through accumulating details of abandonment and decay.
— A young writer imagines a digital universe with corrupted code 719, where trees shake and reality glitches as everything falls apart.
— 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...