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…
Edition #4 – September 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…
The Colorizer – Kendall Furlong
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…
Folding Expectations – Emmie Christie
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,…
Lies We All Believed – Mike Ramon
When I was eight, my dad told me that he was a secret agent. He claimed to work for the CIA, and that when he left on road trips for…
Internment – Laura J. Campbell
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…
Blood, fish and bone – Sam Derby
“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…
Snapshot – Zannier Alejandra
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…
The Final Round – Brent Peters
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 – Michael A. Clark
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…
The Wrong Time To Die – 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,…
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…