Robert Quick

I felt around the sides of my neck. She was right. The skin there was sore, tender to the touch. My …

Thanks to a bright sun and a wide cloudless sky, the afternoon was warm with nothing but the echo of…

"Here it gors. Me and my cogs was moffing along the murky part of the Long Tews, minding our own bus…

I hopped over a pair of the ash-filled streams, so contaminated that the clear water of my childhood…

“Why did the scientists take off their helmets on an alien planet with barely breathable atmosphere?…

There is a light that comes past my window early in the morning. It's not that bright, certainly not…

Funerals are odd ducks, aren't they? I mean they bring out the oddness in people. And odd people. Pr…

Suddenly her simply standing there watching me made her suspect. Why was this girl trying to help me…

I awoke to soft light in the hallway outside my room. Soft greenness pulsed faintly about chest high…

Daryl scrubbed at his skin wishing it were lighter. White would be good but no amount of bleach woul…

Doctor Tanner waited until the clock read 8:00 before approaching Darlene. She was munching on baby …

“Do you have a wallet?”

I looked at the girl without comprehension, my mind focused on the fact tha…

Three of us rode north in my 2002 Camry. Sometimes it felt too small, but having recently been in a …

The inside of the tent was dark and cold and claustrophobic. Bree rolled over in her blanket, wrappi…

You sit and you smoke while I sit and I choke

and if I had a rope with a noose you'd never know

slid…