Edition #5 – December 2021
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…
Shady Hollow Garden Club – Camilla Lee
Camilla Lee was the winner of Redbook magazine’s short-short fiction contest for unpublished authors. She had a humor column in a local newspaper, and has published several personal essays, one…
She Had Willed It – YJ Jun
YJ Jun has previously been published in Sci-Fi Lampoon and Typehouse. She lives on the American East Coast with her wife and their cat. You can find her on Twitter…
No Time for Stories – Alicia Crumpler
Alicia Crumpler is close to finishing a Creative Writing Certificate at UC San Diego-Extension and has a Master’s Degree in Criminology. She pays the bills by teaching criminal justice classes…
Hubert – Melinda Dus
Melinda Dus writes short stories and screenplays. She’s an attorney, wife and mother of two young children who lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA. Dr. Deanna Allen hitched…
The Bridge – Dan Lawrence
Dan Lawrence received his MFA from Columbia University, where he was a Graduate Fellow and Fiction Editor of Columbia Journal. After a career as a magazine editor with Time Inc. and…
Robot Lust – Leon Taylor
The first and last time that I fell in love with Andrea was when she came in for her annual valve job. Yes, I know. Robots have flaunted synthetic flesh…
Anxiety Speaks Softly and Carries a Big Stick – Liz Kitchens
Liz Kitchen is a writer and blogger. Her blog, Be Brave. Lose the Beige! focuses on women of the Baby Boomer generation. She is a guest contributor for Sixty and…
God’s Testicles – Jekwu Anyaegbuna
Jekwu Anyaegbuna graduated from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, with an MA in Creative Writing. He was the winner of a Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2012…