Stone Soup Magazine
— A forgetful servant trying to remember the word for salt keeps adopting new phrases from people he meets, creating misunderstandings until a cobbler accidentally reminds him.
— A poem traces the cycle from evening through night to dawn, observing how moonlight and starlight transform the landscape before sunrise returns.
— A curious girl defies warnings about a grumpy man's forbidden book collection, only to be seized by magical vines that emerge from an enchanted volume.
— A soldier on a battlefield, carrying photos from fallen comrades, hesitates to shoot an enemy and is killed, choosing to let another's future persist over his own.
— A poem contrasts the fearless lion who stands its ground with the quick lizard who runs but can regenerate, exploring different forms of strength and survival.