The Quiet Reader is an international online literary magazine, born in a town called Solitaire, in the state of Quarantine in the country of 2020. Here is the line-up of…
After growing up in a small town in East Texas in the 1940s, Kendall Furlong went on to graduate from Southern Methodist and a career in international business. After stints…
Emmie Christie’s work tends to hover around the topics of feminism, mental health, cats, and the speculative such as unicorns and affordable healthcare. She has been published in Intrinsick Magazine,…
The box truck cut them off, jockeying for preferential access to the freeway ramp. Then it stopped at a red light, giving Rebecca and her daughter, Clare, the opportunity to…
“The ironic thing is,” says Mrs Grantham, leaning on the mud-encrusted border spade that she had moments before thrust meaningfully into the sod, “all those years ago one would conduct…
Zannier Alejandra is a Bolivian writer, living in the United Kingdom. In a past life she was a credit analyst for an international bank but traded in her spreadsheets for…
Brent Peters grew up in a small farming town in southern Ontario, Canada. Writing and literature have been his passion since childhood, leading him from the fields to the classroom. His…
The Gentle Master was sleeping when I awoke from another bad dream. I was happy she didn’t stir, thumping my tail softly even as the lingering nightmares shook through my…
Sharif Gemie is is a happily retired history lecturer who lives in south Wales, United Kingdom. Fourteen of his short stories and two of his flash fictions have been published,…