Stone Soup Magazine
— After Trump's 2016 election, two sixth-grade best friends—one Democrat, one Republican—struggle when politics threatens their friendship, until a handmade bracelet offers reconciliation.
— There once was a mouse who played the keyboard. When he played at night the cats came out. The rats came out. The owls came out!
— A lion and house cat race across continents so fast that a rock falls on the king of France, with the lion winning.
— A girl who can't ride a bike faces humiliation at bike camp until she meets Rosie, another struggling rider who offers genuine friendship.
— A child celebrates physical connection with the earth through barefoot play, describing the planet as a mother whose sandy skin invites daily touch and joy.
— A young poet imagines a distant land where theatrical beings act out our dreams, created by God so humans could experience wonder during sleep.