The Quiet Reader – Page 5 – Making Short Literary Stories Great Again!

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Yule Log (Live!), Christmas 1983 – Bryan Miller

Bryan Miller is an American, Kentucky-born, Minnesota-based writer and performer. His fiction has appeared on the Drabblecast, in Intrinsick and Dream of Shadows, and in the anthologies Shadowy Natures and…

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One Way Ticket on a Moonbound Train – James Edward O’Brien

The EMP Line’s trajectory spanned Nanosuelta’s three moons – an electromagnetic propulsion train that hopscotched from Point A to Point C. Back where humanity came from there had only been…

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Faivish the Imbecile – Robert Bagnall

The first thing you need to know about cousin Faivish is that he’s an imbecile. Talk to him at any level above mere inanities and his eyes glaze over after…

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Mormontown – Tanner Lee

We couldn’t be what we wanted. Weeks included boy scouts, church prep, church, game night, and the same the next week. We rode in boats and helicopters, paintballed, camped in…

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The Hour of Lead – Mark Braidwood

Gabriel’s grandmother was eighty-one and every birthday she would give a rueful smile and say, “I’m blessed to be alive. And another year late for Jack.” Jack was her husband,…

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Other Side of Somewhere – Mitchell Davidson

People used to say that Ginny Gallagher was the best climber in Scoeville. The way she could shimmy up a tree put squirrels to shame. I saw her climb up…

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Putting Down Roots – Valerie Hunter

“This Raymond Treadway’s place?” Dean turned from the fence post he was pounding into place and squinted up at the stranger on the horse. “He’s not here.” “Oh, I know…

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Edition #1 – September 2020

The Quiet Reader is a brand new international literary magazine, born in a town called Solitaire, in the state of Quarantine in the country of 2020. Here is the line-up…

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Pre(r)amble – Ramon Stoppelenburg

It was in the spring of 2020 that the idea sprouted for new a international literary magazine. I was sitting in a comfortable extended window frame of an old colonial…

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The Milliner’s Daughter – 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…

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Absolution – Michael Anthony

Michael Anthony is a writer and artist living in New Jersey in the United States of America. He has published fiction, poetry, illustrations, and photographs in literary journals and…

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Coalesce – Aarushi Shetty

Aarushi Shetty was born and brought up in India and now resides in the United Kingdkom. She is a graduate with a Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing. Her…

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There’s No Right Way to Say This – Yen Radecki

Yen Radecki were raised across three continents and are now based in Japan, where they teach English and write poetry and fiction in their spare time. Their writing has…

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The Blood Test – John Walters

John Walters is an American writer who spent 35 years abroad in Greece, Italy, India, Bangladesh, and other countries. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington, USA, with two of his…

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