Stone Soup Magazine
— A malfunctioning air conditioner drips water into bowls and buckets, inspiring a child to create paper boats, invent ocean adventures, and sing along with the dripping sounds.
— A young poet contemplates the Continental Divide, finding excitement in the engineering feat and the symbolic boundary between watersheds and oceans.
— A girl who never backs down from a challenge breaks her arm climbing the neighborhood's tallest tree during a game of Truth or Dare she wasn't supposed to play.
— A meditation on escaping into TV shows versus facing the messy reality of life, ending with the speaker choosing to walk into 'fresh, impure air.'
— A poem guides readers through a forest meditation where soil grasps, moss chains, and nature's spirits reveal themselves through sensory immersion.
— A student calculates how to spend the six minutes before online math class, watching pedestrians replace morning birds while time takes on new meaning.
— A girl struggles with anger and sadness as she helps her sister move into a college apartment in Bar Harbor, finding clarity by the ocean.