Robert Quick

Devin hungered for conversation. That didn't happen much when he was around people. He tended to be …

October 14

Day five that Brent has woken up ravenous and exhausted. Officially it's day five. It's …

It's been raining for two days straight. No matter what I do I can't see how to stop what I started.…

Empress Melinda the IV ignored the cries of the man being dragged away by two guards. So few people …

“This is what you don't see.” Janine unpaused the recording and upped the contrast and tint until ev…

I pushed the beaded curtain aside and stepped through the front door. A little naked boy, perhaps si…

He was here now.

Fear wrapped cold hands around my arms and slid them up to caress the back of my n…

There was a cloud of agitated lightning bugs outside Mario's window swirling like embers in a firest…

I checked the hurt on my tongue. It was hard not to respond in kind, a struggle to not spit red-hot …

With shaking hands, I closed the book. It was heavier now, as if the paper had changed to iron while…

I was teaching English in Malaysia when the black spot first appeared overhead. It seemed small, bar…

Laying inside a field of wildflowers, Lana stretched out luxuriously, feeling every blade of grass s…

Our words are fragile incomplete things. Stuttering, their half-shapes try to convey ideas. They fal…

They had taken the light. All lights everywhere were gone. First the stars winked out one by one. Th…

When the cliffs came into sight, I found that I wasn't ready to see them. Their vast dominance of th…