Nature

Stories·Lina Kim — I sigh. Summer is so hot in Florida that I think I’ll burn into a pile of ashes. It’s not as hot in Massachusetts, where I used to live. I...

Stories·Madeline Kline — I am standing in my backyard. The trees are tall, towering over me. The birds land on the ground, pecking and pulling worms from the earth. One lands on my...

Video· — Stone Soup contributor and 2020-21 intern Anya Geist, 14, talks with Book Club facilitator and member of the Stone Soup Honor Roll Lucy Rados, 13, about the Writing Workshop, the process...

Stories·Josh Elman — Few were (and still are) able to imagine the wild figure of Fox Girl. But if  you saw her, you’d recognize her even if you’d never heard of such a...

Writing Workshop· — An update from our thirty-second Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday February 6, plus some of the output published below This week we talked about language:...

Stories·Lindsay Gale — The cassie implewart crawled out of her nest. Her long bubber colored fur fell into her eyes as she leapt from tree to tree in a snookaloo manner. Finally, she...

Stories·Pranjoli Sadhukha — When the Garden Speaks I walked into the silent garden. It felt peaceful and quiet yet something about it seemed to be…Alive. Perhaps it was the butterflies daintily flitting about...

Stories·Josh Elman — The Calls of a Dolphin    Tall conifers swayed gently in the evening breeze, tilting toward the  Pacific coast, as if craning their long necks toward the water’s edge. Children ...

Stories·Pranjoli Sadhukha — Weeping Willow Words: And, Tree, Happy, Flame, Suddenly, Whisper The old oak tree swayed ever so slightly in the playful summer breeze, one that was like a young child oblivious...

Stories·Olivia Zhang — A Pair of Eyes The flat bottom of the gondola sliced through silent yet disturbed waters with the smoothness of silk and the quickness of a little bird. As Eva...