Stone Soup Magazine
— A girl visits Taiwan's Houtong Cat Village, where villagers care for hundreds of stray cats, and forms a special connection with a hungry orange tabby kitten.
— A beat trapped in the speaker's head both torments and defines them, pulling them through life's extremes while shaping their identity.
— A nervous rider at a Halloween Horse Show discovers that personal accomplishment and encouraging others matters more than winning first place.
— A cat named Mayhem creates a magical name-guessing game in a water glass to find a new owner after her beloved human dies, testing each person's true character.
— A young child's rhythmic plea to a new cat, asking it to be their companion and dubbing it 'The Tuna Cat' with playful repetition.
— A dog named Chocolate wakes up abandoned, searches for her owner through city and forest, becomes leader of a wolf pack, then finds her way home after 49 days.
— A child catalogs what brings spring to different things — butterflies to flowers, waves to oceans — then finds their own spring in a kite against the sky.