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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Mountain in the Tundra

As I climb up the mountain, I choose to be alone.

As I brave the cold, I feel quite bold as I encounter a heaping

Boulder. It is a rock the size of a meteor, and I am colder.