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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Fire, After the Ashes
I hate being a slave to my feelings. I don't know how not to feel something. Shit, feeling somethi…
Published 4 years ago.
Unsafe Living Conditions
You know it's damn difficult to focus these days so you don't. You distract yourself with Youtube vi…
Published 4 years ago.
Inevitable
Outside the diner, the dark concrete of the city cast deep shadows in the rain that seemed to cut th…
Published 4 years ago.
Atlas Squatted
This wasn't our first date together but I still felt like I had to impress her. I was keenly aware t…
Published 4 years ago.
A Fugue in B manor
I wake up in a strange room, unsure of how I got there. I don't remember going to sleep. I feel slug…
Published 4 years ago.
Consumed in Fear
I feel like I'm trapped inside a box. It might be a coffin. The air is oppressively stuffy and it's …
Published 4 years ago.
A Promise of Vengeance
I waited for Jack Merlington to witch on the lights before speaking. “I told you I'd be here.”
He…
Published 4 years ago.
The Eating Tree
There are experiences and ideas that we have as children that are vivid and real. Some stick with us…
Published 4 years ago.
Outsider in the End: Troubles Grow
For a moment Dana was paralyzed, not truly understanding what had just happened. It seemed impossibl…
Published 4 years ago.
(TBA): The Transformation
A beam of blinding white light shot down from a sky thick with clouds, centering on Kym and bathing …
Published 4 years ago.
Outsider in the End: Unpleasant Surprises
“Thank the gods! It feels like it's been forever. ” Dana stretched her arms toward the sky, reveling…
Published 4 years ago.
Outsider in the End: Ohmwari
Ohmwari, the city where all things find their end. It was a place that Dana only knew by reputatio…
Published 4 years ago.
Outsider in the End: Breakers
A bump in the road jolted the cart hard enough to force Dana past the edge of near sleep and into wa…
Published 4 years ago.
The Burden of Denial
Banging exploded across the breadth of the door as people tried to break in. My worry was fleeting. …
Published 4 years ago.
One to Three Two One
Casey stood there in all white, like a neon blade gleaming against the darkness of the oncoming stor…
Published 4 years ago.