Stone Soup Magazine

Personal Narrative·Yanling Lin, age 10 — A school field trip continues despite torrential rain, leaving students soaked and miserable until they finally return to school after doing nothing but stand in the downpour.

Artwork·Yutia Li

Poetry·Gideon Rose — Once an old man stepped to me We sat down on the chair He said to remember this day But now that I see that man was no other than...

Poetry·Gideon Rose, age 9 — A man without food or water, beaten and robbed, continues to think only of love—revealed to be the poet's own experience.

Story·Avital Sagan, age 12 — A sentient radio watches helplessly as carnivorous moonflowers take over the island city of Floracion, turning its inhabitants into mindless carriers of the infection.

Artwork·Peri Gordon

Artwork·Elodie Weinzierl

Poetry·Jillian Carmel — Crashing to the ground So silent but very loud It’s nature’s magic

Poetry·Raeha Khazanchi, age 11 — Northern lights transform a winter landscape, turning snow green and hair violet-blue in a private celestial performance witnessed by the speaker.

Artwork·Madeline Cleveland