Stone Soup

Where young artists paint the world with words

The international magazine of stories, poems, and art by young writers and artists. Published continuously since 1973.

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Blue Fear

The whispering light hangs in the shadowy trees
As I fly down a golden path of fireflies
Toward a pirate ship door handle that
Slithers like an octopus tentacle in my palm,
And I am filled with blue fear