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 Disposal Chronicle
I was teaching English in Malaysia when the black spot first appeared overhead. It seemed small, bar…
Published 5 years ago.
A Bridge of Wildflowers
Laying inside a field of wildflowers, Lana stretched out luxuriously, feeling every blade of grass s…
Published 5 years ago.
Interpreted Reality
Our words are fragile incomplete things. Stuttering, their half-shapes try to convey ideas. They fal…
Published 5 years ago.
The Dark is Not All
They had taken the light. All lights everywhere were gone. First the stars winked out one by one. Th…
Published 5 years ago.
Averting My Eyes, I Ascend
When the cliffs came into sight, I found that I wasn't ready to see them. Their vast dominance of th…
Published 5 years ago.
Panning for Gold
“Why are you here.”
Wasn't it obvious? There were lines around the block to sign up for the E.D.C. …
Published 5 years ago.
A Place in Memory
I saw the fat man with a beard again today. He had been a stranger kind enough to lend me half of hi…
Published 5 years ago.
The Setting Son
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…
Published 5 years ago.
These Long Nights: Beneath the Skin
Max stood at the edge of the curtained window and stared out into the dark of the garden, searching …
Published 5 years ago.
The Wounds Matter
Sloughing off the tide of years, Ixcar came to his senses very slowly. There had been darkness and n…
Published 5 years ago.
Impotency of Social Distance
“I'm tired.” she said.
Her words sent a jolt of recognition through me. Not just the words and thei…
Published 5 years ago.
Shadows of Friendship
It was his need that broke me. I knew what it was like to be in a position where there was no other …
Published 5 years ago.
Shadows of Desperation
“I didn't kill James.”
“What? I never said that.”
"I know you all think that I did it. Me! You thi…
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Shadows of Absence
“Look, I'm sorry that Jordan is missing. Truly I am, but I'm not going into that fucking forest ever…
Published 5 years ago.
Eddy to Eddy
“Today is Thursday? Are you certain?” The blue of her eyes that I had always associated with the cle…
Published 5 years ago.
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