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“Marjorie” by Taylor Swift, Reviewed by Priscilla Chow, 10

Post Published April 17, 2024 by Stone Soup Editors

The song "Marjorie" is played in the movie Eras Tour in the Evermore leg of the concert, where I first heard it in early 2024. Ever since then, I have fallen in love with this song because the tune se...
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Poetry Soup Ep. 4 – “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop

Post Published December 2, 2022 by Emma Hoff

Transcript: Hello, and welcome to Poetry Soup! I’m your host, Emma Catherine Hoff. Each episode, I’ll discuss a different poem and poet. Today, I’ll be talking about Elizabeth Bishop’s vill...
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Faceless, Reviewed by Sita, 13

Post Published March 21, 2022 by Sita

Alyssa Sheinmel’s novel Faceless does a remarkable job of portraying the psychological problems involved in the aftermath of a traumatic accident. The protagonist, high school senior Maisie Winters,...
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All We Can Do Is Wait, Reviewed by Sita, 13

Post Published February 18, 2022 by Sita

All We Can Do Is Wait by Richard Lawson is an incredibly moving story about life, death, and the gray area in between. It is set in Boston, Massachusetts, with the collapse of the Tobin Bridge bringin...
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“Positive,” a personal narrative by Sarayu B., 11

Post Published December 23, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Positive Sarayu B, 11 I got the news sometime in January. I was waiting, waiting, waiting for my grandmother to get better. She had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier, and the more I thought about...
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Rubble

Post Age 12 Published August 9, 2021 by Ismini Vasiloglou

In the summer of 2017, a horrific earthquake hit the Greek island of Lesvos. In the summer of 2017, my family’s village, Vrisia, was reduced to a terrifying pile of fractured, falling buildings and ...
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No Peconic in Pandemic

Post Published May 26, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

I was sitting on my soft bed, and was finishing up with my online classes. I preferred to work on my bed. It was a lot more comfy than a chair anyway. I was in 5th grade and I’d be going to middle s...
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The Dreaded Blood Test, a personal narrative by Eleanor, 11

Post Published May 23, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

At the time, I was just three years old. My mom, the doctor, and me. The doctor approached me with the flu shot in her hand, and I squirmed in my seat. She got the shot ready, and gently took my arm.
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The Silver Lining of 2020

Post Published January 27, 2021 by Lydia Christoff

2020 was a disastrous year, but many good things came out of it. There’s a quote that says, “Sometimes you have to put up with the rain to get to the rainbow.
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A Different Kind of Chapter, some thoughts by Alice Myers, 10

Post Published August 24, 2020 by Stone Soup Editors

A Different Kind of Chapter Alice Myers, 10 Imagine life as a book. A really interesting book. There are those chapters that make you smile, but there are also chapters that make you cry.
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