Robert Quick

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…

“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…