Stone Soup Magazine

Story·Jubilee Sung — A bored 12-year-old builds a time machine from trash, travels to ancient Alexandria with her talking cat, and must convince Julius Caesar not to burn the library to save human...

Artwork·Madeline Male

Poetry·Avery Parsons-Carswell — mirror, mirror wanting to be anyone it sees wanting to be the copycat of you or me

Poetry·Avery Parsons-Carswell — Pink buds as bright As the sun, Sprouting like a Bird hatches, Tough as warriors

Artwork·Natalie Yue

Story·Evangeline Gustavson — A woman nurtures a mysterious seedling that grows into an extraordinary plant, dies, and leaves offspring; after her death, she reunites with the plant's true spirit—a boy.

Artwork·Kate Fullem

Artwork·Rebecca Wu

Poetry·Jaslene Kwack — A granddaughter observes how her grandmother's blue cotton dress absorbs daily scents and reflects the Korean proverb that clothes reveal character.

Story·Alice Pak — As conflict between Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces approaches their border town, two childhood friends witness the gradual erosion of their peaceful world through power outages, distant explosions, and rising...