Stone Soup Magazine
— Editor’s Introduction Since November 2017, we have published 15—and, with this issue, now 20— of Hannah Parker’s photographs. This issue also marks her fourth Stone Soup cover. Hannah lives on...
— A child discovers that the scary monster outside their door is actually lonely and scared, shrinking smaller with each act of kindness until it disappears.
— A philosophical narrative following four reincarnated beings—seed, insect, fish, and bear—each discovering Nature's cyclical patterns of creation, destruction, and renewal through their brief lives.
— A girl who believes she is perfect discovers emptiness within herself when her teacher sends her home, triggering her first tears and the beginning of real growth.
— A year cycles through the seasons as Little Deer grows from playful fawn to father, echoing his own father's words about preparing for winter.
— A seed becomes a rose that grows tall as a dog, then withers each winter and returns, cycling through seasons year after year.
— A girl awaits her mother's return for a crucial school interview, only to learn her mother is hospitalized and she'll enter foster care.