Edition #3 – May 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…
History Lessons – Toshiya Kamei
Toshiya Kamei is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in Bending Genres, New World Writing, and Utopia Science Fiction, among others. He was born in Japan and studied English and Spanish…
I Knew Him Well – Alex S. French
Alex S. French was raised in Montana and openly refused to ever leave. Until he did. He now teaches composition to college students and various creative writing workshops to the…
Death of the Classical Handshake – Mark Budman
Mark Budman is a first-generation immigrant, currently living in Boston, USA. His writing has appeared in McSWeeney’S, Catapult, Witness, Five Points, Guernica/PEN, American Scholar, Huffington Post, Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly,…
Full Stop – Tamás Inczédy
Time-worn steps creaking beneath my hurried pace as I am rushing down the staircase of the apartment building with the kid in my arms, countless bags, stuffed animals, a nursing…
If You’ve Ever Eaten Toad – C.M. Saunders
Christian Saunders writes fiction as C.M. Saunders, is a freelance journalist and editor from south Wales, United Kingdom. His work has appeared in the Fortean Times, the Literary Hatchet, ParABnormal,…
I Am Francis – Reed Venrick
Reed Venrick lives on his orange grove farm in Central Florida, USA, and formerly studied Italian at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, in Italy, French at the Alliance Francaise…
Personality Emporium – Andrew Rucker Jones
Andrew Rucker Jones is a former IT expert and American expatriate living in Germany with his Georgian wife and their three children. He quit his day job to become an…
Pete’s Sign – Russell Richardson
The birds’ white shit, flung down from an electrical cable, had blotted out the three feet tall lettering that once read “Pete’s.” His business had suffered enough. The locals barely…
Ways of the Widow – Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson is a UK resident whose stories have been published in Horror Zine, Star*Line, Zimbell House Publishing and many more, he is currently editing his first novel. …