Stone Soup Magazine
— A child watches their old house disappear through the car window as the family drives away to a new home, capturing the moment of leaving.
— Goodbye, Earth: rising rising I am rising above the grass, and falling toward the moon.
— A concrete poem creates stars from periods across the page, ending with 'A memory of Joy' as the final constellation in a starless night.
— A five-year-old Russian speaker faces her first day of kindergarten without knowing English, finds connection through a Japanese classmate who shares her language barrier.
— A child captures autumn's arrival through sound patterns, describing wool sweaters, breezy sneezes, chattering trees, and red leaves flooding streets like a stream.
— Birds endure a devastating storm that transforms their peaceful sea home, then witness the rainbow and crystalline water that follow.
— Three royal brothers shipwrecked on separate shores of the same island each journey inland through different terrains before reuniting in a dandelion field at the center.
— In early morning solitude, a teenager reflects from her blue chair, treasuring this pause before the world returns to normal and her sanctuary becomes ordinary again.