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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Bad Day

Bad Day
Qais, 10, Damascus, Syria

“We were in the war, and then we disappeared to Vienna, and then we saw the news, and it was sad.”