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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Creeping Doubt
I wonder if I'm unwanted. Am I the problem? I've always tried to make things better but I feel like …
Published 6 years ago.
Kaiju World: Earth - The Beginning
Streaking down from the heavens, long tailed comets signaled the end of everything. Tears of blazing…
Published 6 years ago.
The First War of Power, pt 2
A man placed his hand on the woman's shoulder and asked, “Where is Mhum-Ma?”
The leader of the left…
Published 6 years ago.
The First War of Power, pt 1
The two sides met, one coming from stone huts and arbitrary rules, the other from ravaged forests, a…
Published 6 years ago.
Acceptance
Jennifer waited expectantly for an answer while staring at her phone. Her mum had warned her about t…
Published 6 years ago.
The Decline and Fall of the New Roman Empire
I feel like I am a single cell in some great dying beast. It thrashes and the earth bleeds thickly, …
Published 6 years ago.
On Music
There are times when music reaches me. I'm open to it, vulnerable to a melody, a drum beat, or even …
Published 6 years ago.
Waking Up
The music grew louder as the pattern repeated. Drawing Adrian across the boundary that separated sle…
Published 6 years ago.
Great Expectations
Responder pruned, collapsing in on itself, shrinking down like bacon in a frying pan. I knew from th…
Published 6 years ago.
Inside Pete's Skin
Peter's skin itched as if people were watching him. He knew that he was alone in his apartment but t…
Published 6 years ago.
Mythos
There is something not quite right with the world. It teems with chaos, madness, and sudden death. W…
Published 6 years ago.
Her Name was Nia Wilson
A girl was murdered yesterday. She was black. Some people say that skin color didn't matter. I belie…
Published 6 years ago.
Stray Words
“Wicked are the men who dream and do nothing!”
The voice rang out above the early morning din of th…
Published 6 years ago.
Reclamation: Interlude I
Emmex kept her eyes up and her the focus of her hearing behind her. The sirens had stopped but that …
Published 6 years ago.
Under the Broken Sky
Klaxons. Klaxons everywhere. Truly this was it.
The building convulsed. It wasn't supposed to be li…
Published 6 years ago.