Robert Quick

Three of us rode north in my 2002 Camry. Sometimes it felt too small, but having recently been in a …

The inside of the tent was dark and cold and claustrophobic. Bree rolled over in her blanket, wrappi…

You sit and you smoke while I sit and I choke

and if I had a rope with a noose you'd never know

slid…

I wonder if I'm unwanted. Am I the problem? I've always tried to make things better but I feel like …

Streaking down from the heavens, long tailed comets signaled the end of everything. Tears of blazing…

A man placed his hand on the woman's shoulder and asked, “Where is Mhum-Ma?”

The leader of the left…

The two sides met, one coming from stone huts and arbitrary rules, the other from ravaged forests, a…

Jennifer waited expectantly for an answer while staring at her phone. Her mum had warned her about t…

I feel like I am a single cell in some great dying beast. It thrashes and the earth bleeds thickly, …

There are times when music reaches me. I'm open to it, vulnerable to a melody, a drum beat, or even …

The music grew louder as the pattern repeated. Drawing Adrian across the boundary that separated sle…

Responder pruned, collapsing in on itself, shrinking down like bacon in a frying pan. I knew from th…

Peter's skin itched as if people were watching him. He knew that he was alone in his apartment but t…

There is something not quite right with the world. It teems with chaos, madness, and sudden death. W…

A girl was murdered yesterday. She was black. Some people say that skin color didn't matter. I belie…