Edition #5 – December 2021
Published in The Quiet Reader Edition 5
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 our fifth edition, with stories written by Jekwu Anyaegbuna, Melinda Dus, Alicia Crumpler, YJ Jun, Liz Kitchen, Dan Lawrence, Camilla Lee and Leon Taylor. The staff readers for this edition …
Shady Hollow Garden Club – Camilla Lee
Published in The Quiet Reader Edition 5
I hear my mother’s voice in my head: Adelaide, you have to join something. How do you expect to make friends in a new place? If she were alive, my mother would be one-hundred- and-three. Which means I must be, what, eighty-one? Eighty-two next month. She knew how to dig at my weak spots. Seems she still can, posthumously. I …