Stone Soup Magazine

Poetry·Elizabeth Merchant — Nothing to do Just me and you Everyone is through Just me and you Down is light Day is dark Night is right One + one Is half a ton

Poetry·Elizabeth Merchant — “Let me sleep” I say “I’m in the clouds Today” “Let me rest” I state “I’m in the grass It’s great” “If I wake Who knows When I will see...

Artwork·Savarna Yang

Personal Narrative·Georgia Marshall — A granddaughter interviews her grandfather about his 44-year career at a college, discovering how he embodied the parable of the third stonemason who built cathedrals.

Artwork·Anna Weinberg

Poetry·Lyra Rivera — My brain is a stew When I need something It is at the bottom When I don’t It is at the top Sometimes it is in the middle Through a...

Poetry·Daniel Shorten — A clock contemplates its endless mechanical existence, questioning why humans created it to mark time in perpetual, lonely repetition.

Artwork·Lucy Kershen

Story·Ava Shorten — A river blocked from the sea becomes a puddle who befriends an aging frog that shares stories of the ocean and ultimately carries the puddle to its destination.

Artwork·Jiacheng Yu