Robert Quick

“Why are you here.”

Wasn't it obvious? There were lines around the block to sign up for the E.D.C. …

I saw the fat man with a beard again today. He had been a stranger kind enough to lend me half of hi…

My dad has aged a lot in the past few years. It was probably as gradual as the rest of us but I'm no…

Max stood at the edge of the curtained window and stared out into the dark of the garden, searching …

Sloughing off the tide of years, Ixcar came to his senses very slowly. There had been darkness and n…

“I'm tired.” she said.

Her words sent a jolt of recognition through me. Not just the words and thei…

It was his need that broke me. I knew what it was like to be in a position where there was no other …

“I didn't kill James.”

“What? I never said that.”

"I know you all think that I did it. Me! You thi…

“Look, I'm sorry that Jordan is missing. Truly I am, but I'm not going into that fucking forest ever…

“Today is Thursday? Are you certain?” The blue of her eyes that I had always associated with the cle…

Yellow flakes spiraled down from above to settle on the city like the ash of some great holocaust. T…

The city seemed endless when it was empty. Half of it, maybe more, was filled with unused treasures …

Our only warning was the earth crying out in a great grinding noise that swallowed all other sounds,…

Ethan walked away from the makeshift camp of encircled cars, leaving the forty or so people relying …

Walking by the general store, Juana Sanchez caught sight of her reflection in a barrel of rain water…