Robert Quick

Robert Quick

Joined Ficlatté in September 2014

333 stories, 10 challenges, 23 prompts, 440 comments, and 32 friends

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Where the -@!# did my muse go?

Writer, dreamer, knight, shackled by entertainment . . . and people.

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In Memoriam Bliss / Empty-handed (poem)

To dream such dreams,

to banish despair with the conjured light of face and form,

drawn perfectly fr…

Published 3 years ago.

The King in Orange II

Naked, except for a blood-stained cloak that reeks of foreign piss, he sates himself on his minister…

Published 3 years ago.

The King in Orange I

Across a cultivated green, you can find him shambling and swaying like a drunken dotard,

surrounded …

Published 3 years ago.

Even in Autumn, She is the Spring

Vexedly, I tapped the glass whose sloping walls warped and elongated the bookcases and fireplace of …

Published 3 years ago.

Gifts Ungiven

It had been fourteen days. The painting was gone and with it my heart. Authored by an amateur it had…

Published 3 years ago.

Questions Without Answers

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

Published 3 years ago.

Sleep Trials

October 14

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

Published 3 years ago.

When the Cure Becomes Worse than the Disease

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

Published 3 years ago.

By All Rights

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

Published 3 years ago.

No Safety in Sleep

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

Published 3 years ago.

Investigator Deos

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

Published 3 years ago.

The Crooked-Headed God

He was here now.

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

Published 3 years ago.

An Embarrassment of Warnings

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

Published 3 years ago.

Tears for the Garden

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

Published 3 years ago.

The Candlemaker

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

Published 3 years ago.

Robert Quick

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Followers 23

HSAR
ElshaHawk LoA
Jae
Escapist
Abby
Andrman
wolframdioxide
In Nights Arms
nuclearsubmarine
Anorak
HS Wift
rhubarb_j
slapdashmonuments
GradualUprising
Fantasist
PJ Returned
remembrancer
Jim Stitzel
August Rode
WhiteHat
Lampyris Noctiluca
ethelthefrog
Avenlight