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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The Paper

Black leaking out of the pen
Elegant lines of different shapes
Ink soaking into the paper
Black slowly consuming the page

You have forgotten the world
Silence creeping up
The leftovers from a storm dripping
on your windowsill
Lights flickering
Tick tock from the grandfather clock

Look up.