Hope Candles, a story by Sydelle Pearl, appears on pages 18 and 19 of Skipping Stones: A Multicultural Literary Magazine, January to March 2016 issue. It is about how a young girl and a homeless woman give gifts to each other during the holiday of Hanukkah. Click here to order copies.
The Princess Who Learned the Language of the Trees, a fairytale by Sydelle Pearl, appears on pages 31 and 32 of Skipping Stones: A Multicultural Literary Magazine, October to December 2016 issue. The story is about a dancing princess who loves the trees in her father’s kingdom so much that she wishes to communicate with them. Click here to order copies.
Sydelle’s original folktale, Skyshells, about how the sound of the sea came to be heard in the seashells appears in Skipping Stones: An International Multicultural Magazine Summer 2017 issue. Click here to order copies.
The Train Called Carl Sandburg, a historical fiction story by Sydelle Pearl, appears in the newsletter Inkings and Idlings: The Newsletter of the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association, Winter 2016-2017 issue, pages 2-4. The story is about how a nine-year-old African-American boy and his family meet Carl during his homecoming reading and concert in Galesburg, IL in 1953.
Sydelle’s story, The Sign for Rainbow, about a deaf boy’s experiences in a classroom with hearing children, appears in the January-March 2018 issue of Skipping Stones: a Multicultural Literary Magazine.