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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On the Perimeter

Grims reached the outer fence, a rickety wooden thing with a large gap in between the top and bottom…

Published 8 years ago.

Caught Out with a Corpse

It would be quicker to go through town but Grims didn't want to carry the corpse through the streets…

Published 8 years ago.

Falling Dark

Grims surveyed the horizon moving only his eyes. He held a long butted rifle against his shoulder, b…

Published 8 years ago.

Corrupt Life Spring

The fire rain came again last night, driving holes in the already pitted metal over our heads. Cossa…

Published 8 years ago.

Tropes of the Trade: Shaken With a Twist

Jacqueline signaled the bartender for another mojito. “It's not obvious to me.”

“Since your attack …

Published 8 years ago.

Tropes of the Trade: Muddled Bitters

“Don't be so sure of yourself. You killed a man and blew up a building, you did not kill F.A.C.E. Ho…

Published 8 years ago.

Haunted

It's so frustrating not knowing why things are the way the are. I'm on a familiar street. I think it…

Published 8 years ago.

Tropes of the Trade: Bottom of the Glass

Jacqueline, never Jack or Jackie, swirled the ice around the dregs of her mojito. It was her favorit…

Published 8 years ago.

A Depth of Misunderstanding

The squid-girl resurfaced through the bleak waters. “Quick! Can you swim?”

I affirmed that I could …

Published 8 years ago.

Red Eyes: Historic Foundations

The street had raised Lamar. He knew it was kind of a corrupt balance to the influence of his momma …

Published 8 years ago.

The Lethander Sheath

Reina browsed through the “curiosities” sure that everything in the store was junk. Wandering down a…

Published 8 years ago.

Cabin Boy and the Sea (Con't) (Poetry)

The cabin boy, now Master of the Ship, walked alone

stepping over the glass-eyed corpses of meat and…

Published 8 years ago.

The Cabin Boy and the Sea (Poetry)

The ship heaved high, breaking through the waves,

the dark hell of night's clouds and the sea's spra…

Published 8 years ago.

Red Eyes: Turned Out

Lamar hadn't ever thought that he'd be a drug dealer. His grandma had once told him that the streets…

Published 8 years ago.

Red Eyes

“Let me guess, you want out?” Deion leaned back in his torn up office chair. Now the strobing headli…

Published 8 years ago.

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Andrman
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In Nights Arms
HSAR
Abby
Anorak
slapdashmonuments
GradualUprising
Fantasist
PJ Returned
Lampyris Noctiluca
ElshaHawk LoA
Jae
August Rode
Jim Stitzel
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