Stone Soup Magazine
— A father and daughter discover a dead bird at dusk and create an impromptu funeral with autumn leaves, watching as wind carries both leaves and spirit away.
— A leaf contemplates the community rule that all leaves must eventually fall, resisting until witnessing a tree being cut down transforms fear into understanding.
— A bilingual poem imagines a song the world needs — one that sounds like hope, teaches strength, and moves like water.
— A Black girl struggles with accepting her natural hair as beautiful while navigating classmates who treat it as exotic and touchable.
— An elk wades through winter snow and calls to the sky, promising that spring will return to transform the frozen landscape.
— A spoiled rich man loses everything when his parents die, struggles to find work, and eventually creates a program to help homeless people become rideshare drivers.