Stone Soup Magazine

Artwork·Reed Skelton

Artwork·Emilei Lu

Artwork·Antara Gangwal

Poetry·Karinne Ulrey, age 10 — Night falls on a city where stoplights reflect off water, distant conversations drift through air, and a lone car crosses a scarlet bridge.

Artwork·Delaney Slote

Poetry·Rebecca Beaver, age 13 — A speaker confronts the loss of their heart to the moon, becoming a whisper of their former self in this surreal exploration of identity and emptiness.

Artwork·Ula Pomian

Poetry·Ari Martinez, age 9 — A playful exploration of mistakes through wordplay, comparing them to tissues on cake and balloons on garbage cans, then deconstructing the word itself.

Artwork·Eli Breyer Essiam

Poetry·Ari Martinez — way too short and now there’s this feeling you know the one that’s like scratching sandpaper with your teeth or really more like where your teeth used to be.