Stone Soup Magazine
— A speaker seeks refuge in the art room, a space where they can exist without intrusion, where silence protects solitude and there's finally room for the self.
— A girl reflects on her name change from Anusha to Shivanshi in preschool, and the various nicknames that mark different relationships in her life.
— A young writer celebrates the everyday magic of erasers, cataloging their varieties, textures, and the quiet miracle of their ability to make mistakes disappear.
— A woman with failing memory navigates her empty house, discovers something terrible on her street, and forgets both the horror and that her husband is dead.