Audrey – Scott Pedersen
Scott Pedersen is a fiction writer based in Wisconsin, USA. His work has appeared in Fiction International, The I-70 Review, Louisiana Literature, The MacGuffin and many other journals and anthologies.…
Lost in Paris – Judy Guilliams-Tapia
Judy Guilliams-Tapia has shape-shifted among various versions of herself throughout her adult life: graduate student living and occasionally studying in Nice, France; wordsmithing career federal bureaucrat; frazzled feminist Mom of…
Memories – Elizabeth Guilt
Elizabeth Guilt lives in London, United Kingdom, where history lurks alongside plate glass office buildings and stories spring out of the street names. Her fiction has appeared most recently in…
The Saved – Sharif Gemie
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,…
The Gold Nugget – Stephen Myer
Stephen Myer is a writer and musician based in Southern California. His stories and poems have been published in online and print literary journals, such as Goats Milk Magazine, The…
Assistance – Catherine Forrest
Catherine Forrest lives in the Baltimore area of, Maryland, USA. She edits medical journals by day and moonlights as an essayist and fiction writer. She publishes essays twice-weekly in Shelf…
Canadian Sorry – David Wayne Stewart
David Wayne Stewart is a “professional Canadian” in California, USA, helping Canadian tech clusters and universities bridge into the Bay Area ecosystem. He is currently the Advisory Board Chair of…
Gopher Night in Birmingham – D.W. Davis
D.W. Davis is a native of rural Illinois, USA. His work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him on Facebook and on @dan_davis86. …
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Camilla Lee was the winner of Redbook magazine’s short-short fiction contest for unpublished authors.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…