Edition #2 – January 2021
The Quiet Reader is an international literary magazine, born in a town called Solitaire, in the state of Quarantine in the country of 2020. Here is the line-up of our…
Straight Face – PGC Young
PGC Young is a young writer from Croydon, UK. Her fiction has recently been published in Mslexia. She’s also written articles for MPs on equalities, for The Radio Times, and…
The Fly Under – Jack Coey
Jack Coey, a 72-year-old grandfather of two, has navigated life’s many challenges with grace, always striving to leave others unharmed—a testament to a life well-lived, in his view. Writing brings…
The Book of Love – Vaughan Stanger
For the third time that evening, Joseph Connell staggered into the upstairs room of the Bricklayer’s Arms clutching a crate of Birra Moretti. He struggled, one-handed, to open the waist-high…
The Ocean Deep – Lena Ng
I am writing this story for posterity. In case I stop resisting the ocean’s pull and one day vanish. If my body is not recovered, or even if it is,…
Yule Log (Live!), Christmas 1983 – Bryan Miller
Bryan Miller is an American, Kentucky-born, Minnesota-based writer and performer. His fiction has appeared on the Drabblecast, in Intrinsick and Dream of Shadows, and in the anthologies Shadowy Natures and…
One Way Ticket on a Moonbound Train – James Edward O’Brien
The EMP Line’s trajectory spanned Nanosuelta’s three moons – an electromagnetic propulsion train that hopscotched from Point A to Point C. Back where humanity came from there had only been…
Faivish the Imbecile – Robert Bagnall
The first thing you need to know about cousin Faivish is that he’s an imbecile. Talk to him at any level above mere inanities and his eyes glaze over after…
Mormontown – Tanner Lee
We couldn’t be what we wanted. Weeks included boy scouts, church prep, church, game night, and the same the next week. We rode in boats and helicopters, paintballed, camped in…
The Hour of Lead – Mark Braidwood
Gabriel’s grandmother was eighty-one and every birthday she would give a rueful smile and say, “I’m blessed to be alive. And another year late for Jack.” Jack was her husband,…
Other Side of Somewhere – Mitchell Davidson
People used to say that Ginny Gallagher was the best climber in Scoeville. The way she could shimmy up a tree put squirrels to shame. I saw her climb up…
Putting Down Roots – Valerie Hunter
“This Raymond Treadway’s place?” Dean turned from the fence post he was pounding into place and squinted up at the stranger on the horse. “He’s not here.” “Oh, I know…