Stone Soup Magazine
— A morning meditation watches rain drizzle down at dawn, moving from gray darkness to pink and yellow sky, finding joy through a window.
— Two figures with umbrellas sit together in a rainy night until one leaves, then returns, as the natural world responds to their movements.
— During a thunderstorm, a frightened girl and her mother share their fears, leading the girl to discover courage as the storm passes and flowers bloom.
— A poem observes how a duck's serenity triggers envy, then flips perspective to reveal the observer as the ugly duckling and the duck as the swan.
— Seven-year-old stuck on a water slide at Great Wolf Lodge faces her fear of darkness and devises a solution to get the raft moving again.
— During a car ride to a new home, a child imagines creating an elaborate roof garden filled with flowers, vegetables, and herbs.