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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The Fear of Isolation
Messenger dings again, the three inside the bubble becoming a four.
She wants to talk and still I d…
Published 7 years ago.
A Many-colored Sheet
A sullen sun, tired and heavy, settled on the Locata mountain ridge. It lay there like a man dying, …
Published 7 years ago.
Compelled by Ritual
Sound echoed through the winding passages of the fissure, ultimately coming from a great cavern wher…
Published 7 years ago.
As the World Burns
Hundreds of people slept peacefully in the vast, dark room. Long rows of them, side by side, covered…
Published 7 years ago.
Edge of Starlight: Paranoid Company
“I saw you dock. Nasty looking black eye. That rock you towed in do that to you?” Captain Umski aske…
Published 7 years ago.
Edge of Starlight: Asteroid
“Status report! Helmsman, full stop.” Captain Torrance held on to his chair for stability waiting fo…
Published 7 years ago.
High Priest of Inaray
Zane Peters watched the news with growing anxiety. The Beast below was getting agitated again. That …
Published 7 years ago.
In Vain
“Please. Go away.” Her voice was irritated.
“Nah, girl. I can't leave a sweet thing like you here a…
Published 7 years ago.
Those Cloud-capped Towers
Lloyd skated across an unnaturally still sky, the kind that looked and felt like twilight but you kn…
Published 7 years ago.
Haley's Eyes
"Before we go on," Haley bit her bottom lip, took a deep breath and continued, "this is me."
Nothin…
Published 7 years ago.
Not Me but Another Muse that Looks Just Like Me
Stuck.
A blinking cursor mocked me from a blank screen. This writing thing wasn't going well. I was…
Published 7 years ago.
Winding Up
Two people had gone down in the attack by that white dog-like thing which had driven the five of us …
Published 7 years ago.
Vacational Thermodynamics
“Are you ready yet?”
Mark's voice sounded thin and petulant through the door. Irritated, Gemma clos…
Published 7 years ago.
Yoked
“Here.”
I barely caught the stranger's phone as he waded against the crowd flowing past us. “The pa…
Published 7 years ago.
The Cold House
“How is this possible?” Marcela asked, her hand gripping the bare skin of the opposite shoulder and …
Published 7 years ago.