Stone Soup Magazine
— A young poet captures summer through garden flowers, beach dresses, and ocean waves, ending with a wish for the season to stay.
— A lotus flower announces summer's arrival through flying petals, not knowing she herself embodies the season she proclaims.
— A speaker trapped beneath a blue night sky refuses to wait for morning and instead chooses to bring in the sun themselves.
— Bees are sunflowers’ summer. Waves are oceans’ summer. Daisies are gardens’ summer. I lay down on the sand. It is so warm. Touching my face, “You are my summer.”
— A boy shoots an arrow into the sky during a bow-making activity, gets it stuck in a tree, and learns to think before acting through elaborate attempts to retrieve it.
— A reader transforms into knights, princesses, and trolls while reading beneath a summer tree, until sleep overtakes imagination.