Stone Soup Magazine
— A fierce warning about tigers mixes danger with unexpected tenderness, calling them siblings to baby pebbles and the award of everything.
— A young poet's urgent plea for environmental action warns that without animals, 'the world is a joke' and challenges readers to reconsider who is truly foolish.
— A young poet confronts fear as a physical presence, describing its effects on body and mind before declaring victory through direct combat.
— Never out or the future in Down the bowels of the abyss the heart will be in But the body is out You are always never alone
— It’s old still and quiet. No heart at all. Just a place. The emptiness makes my heart hollow. I feel it’s been stolen. Hurry there is not much time.
— A young poet reflects on the fleeting nature of days, the irreversibility of time, and the pull of home as evening approaches.
— A devil and angel switch moral roles after the angel bites the devil's ear, which transforms into a halo the devil swallows.
— Dangle and drop as lonely as can be wish for friends just like themselves if only they could see the other side.
— A young poet imagines a love drawing that awaits completion when the right hearts find each other, expressing patient hope for connection.
— The ocean's mysteries and movements become a meditation on unanswered questions and the human need to understand what remains unknowable.