Robert Quick

Last Friday, I went to see my grandmother. Growing up I didn't find it funny that our name for her, …

That's how I became a part of the Cold Hail Battalion (Give 'em Hail!). I was never carried into bat…

Rain fell hard, threatening to drown the city but never quite committing to finishing the job. Tonig…

Anthony blinked a couple times, hard enough that fireworks of white light appeared across the dark s…

"Humanity should be still and calm." The tall, faintly luminous figure placed a six fingered hand …

The tower is coming along nicely. It's defensible with thick walls and even though I can't see them,…

I let the cat nuzzle at my fingertips and then rub its cheek down the length of my fingers. It had b…

I roused from my sleep enough to hear the low tones of conversation from the front of my car. It was…

There's a darkness in you. It hides in our whole family. It's a sickness that must be fought and acc…

Screams, hundreds of them, howled in waves. Sometimes they joined together in choral unison, almost …

The story Uncle Charlie told went that some Columbians had jacked a Volvo and tried to outrun the co…

So many of the businesses in Lickton were gated, barred, or just downright broken. The damage wasn't…

When his cell dinged as an alarm, a single note strong and pure as a minister's daughter, Lamar didn…

And the mask did shimmer and flow like molten gold

but where did the tattered robe of the exalted Ki…

I watched as a deep, dark, gulf widened between two people leaning against the same Honda Civic. Pap…