Robert Ford
@robertmford.bsky.social
Writer, community builder, & devoted tea drinker 🍵✨—on a mission to find the stories that connect us, spark empathy, and make the world a bit kinder (one cuppa at a time).
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A parcel appeared on the field side of the stile.
Lower Tissington offered opinions.
Maggie offered silence.
Within Reach: a small object, two days, and the difference between reaching and crossing.
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#MaggieBCasefiles #ShortFiction #VillageStories #Thresholds
Lower Tissington offered opinions.
Maggie offered silence.
Within Reach: a small object, two days, and the difference between reaching and crossing.
www.brittleviews.com/p/within-reach
#MaggieBCasefiles #ShortFiction #VillageStories #Thresholds
Within Reach
It began, as many small disturbances in Lower Tissington do, with something left exactly where it shouldn’t be.
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February 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
A parcel appeared on the field side of the stile.
Lower Tissington offered opinions.
Maggie offered silence.
Within Reach: a small object, two days, and the difference between reaching and crossing.
www.brittleviews.com/p/within-reach
#MaggieBCasefiles #ShortFiction #VillageStories #Thresholds
Lower Tissington offered opinions.
Maggie offered silence.
Within Reach: a small object, two days, and the difference between reaching and crossing.
www.brittleviews.com/p/within-reach
#MaggieBCasefiles #ShortFiction #VillageStories #Thresholds
Stress rarely erupts where it was stored.
It leaks—into patience, relationships, decision-making—long before the body protests.
The body is usually the last system to speak, not the first.
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#BrittleViews #StressPatterns #Containment
It leaks—into patience, relationships, decision-making—long before the body protests.
The body is usually the last system to speak, not the first.
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#BrittleViews #StressPatterns #Containment
Where This Pattern Leaks
The Secondary Costs of Containment
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February 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Stress rarely erupts where it was stored.
It leaks—into patience, relationships, decision-making—long before the body protests.
The body is usually the last system to speak, not the first.
www.brittleviews.com/p/where-this...
#BrittleViews #StressPatterns #Containment
It leaks—into patience, relationships, decision-making—long before the body protests.
The body is usually the last system to speak, not the first.
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#BrittleViews #StressPatterns #Containment
A short story about timing, restraint, and what lingers after nothing happens.
Nothing Pressed
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Nothing Pressed
If it stays with you, feel free to share — or subscribe for more reflections like this.
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Nothing Pressed
Nothing Pressed
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February 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
A short story about timing, restraint, and what lingers after nothing happens.
Nothing Pressed
If it stays with you, feel free to share — or subscribe for more reflections like this.
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Nothing Pressed
If it stays with you, feel free to share — or subscribe for more reflections like this.
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#fiction #shortstory #litfic #BrittleViews
Some people don’t break under pressure.
They contain it.
This essay looks at why the body often waits until after the moment has passed to speak—and why the cost of holding it together is usually delayed.
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#BrittleViews #Health #Stress
They contain it.
This essay looks at why the body often waits until after the moment has passed to speak—and why the cost of holding it together is usually delayed.
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#BrittleViews #Health #Stress
The Hidden Cost of Holding It Together
On containment, competence, and delayed cost
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February 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Some people don’t break under pressure.
They contain it.
This essay looks at why the body often waits until after the moment has passed to speak—and why the cost of holding it together is usually delayed.
www.brittleviews.com/p/the-hidden...
#BrittleViews #Health #Stress
They contain it.
This essay looks at why the body often waits until after the moment has passed to speak—and why the cost of holding it together is usually delayed.
www.brittleviews.com/p/the-hidden...
#BrittleViews #Health #Stress
A small discrepancy.
The numbers balance.
Something is deliberately left alone.
Balance Carried Forward — a quiet story about restraint, record-keeping, and what remains after the meeting ends.
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#QuietObservations #VillageLife #MaggieB
The numbers balance.
Something is deliberately left alone.
Balance Carried Forward — a quiet story about restraint, record-keeping, and what remains after the meeting ends.
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#QuietObservations #VillageLife #MaggieB
Balance Carried Forward
The Women’s Institute hall smelled of polish.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:14 PM
A small discrepancy.
The numbers balance.
Something is deliberately left alone.
Balance Carried Forward — a quiet story about restraint, record-keeping, and what remains after the meeting ends.
www.brittleviews.com/p/balance-ca...
#QuietObservations #VillageLife #MaggieB
The numbers balance.
Something is deliberately left alone.
Balance Carried Forward — a quiet story about restraint, record-keeping, and what remains after the meeting ends.
www.brittleviews.com/p/balance-ca...
#QuietObservations #VillageLife #MaggieB
Some pauses don’t disappear.
They just start waiting.
A short essay on interruption, permission, and attention—written sideways, not instructively.
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Tea, Interrupted ☕️
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#Essays #Attention #Pause #BrittleViews
They just start waiting.
A short essay on interruption, permission, and attention—written sideways, not instructively.
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Tea, Interrupted ☕️
If it lands, feel free to share.
#Essays #Attention #Pause #BrittleViews
Tea, Interrupted
On permission, pause, and attention
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February 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Some pauses don’t disappear.
They just start waiting.
A short essay on interruption, permission, and attention—written sideways, not instructively.
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Tea, Interrupted ☕️
If it lands, feel free to share.
#Essays #Attention #Pause #BrittleViews
They just start waiting.
A short essay on interruption, permission, and attention—written sideways, not instructively.
www.brittleviews.com/p/tea-interr...
Tea, Interrupted ☕️
If it lands, feel free to share.
#Essays #Attention #Pause #BrittleViews
Some stress reactions arrive only after the pressure has passed.
This essay looks at post-stress release—what the body does when it finally believes it’s safe to let go. Quiet, physiological, often misread.
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#Essays #TheBody #Stress #Boundaries #NervousSystem
This essay looks at post-stress release—what the body does when it finally believes it’s safe to let go. Quiet, physiological, often misread.
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#Essays #TheBody #Stress #Boundaries #NervousSystem
When Stress Ends, the Body Speaks
Understanding Post-Stress Release Reactions
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January 30, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Some stress reactions arrive only after the pressure has passed.
This essay looks at post-stress release—what the body does when it finally believes it’s safe to let go. Quiet, physiological, often misread.
www.brittleviews.com/p/when-stres...
#Essays #TheBody #Stress #Boundaries #NervousSystem
This essay looks at post-stress release—what the body does when it finally believes it’s safe to let go. Quiet, physiological, often misread.
www.brittleviews.com/p/when-stres...
#Essays #TheBody #Stress #Boundaries #NervousSystem
A new Maggie B. casefile: For the Minutes.
A village fuss.
A pause at a gate.
A recognition that doesn’t ask to be proved.
If quiet stories about attention and silence are your thing, this one’s for you.
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#ShortFiction #QuietStories #LiteraryFiction
A village fuss.
A pause at a gate.
A recognition that doesn’t ask to be proved.
If quiet stories about attention and silence are your thing, this one’s for you.
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#ShortFiction #QuietStories #LiteraryFiction
For the Minutes
For the Minutes
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January 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM
A new Maggie B. casefile: For the Minutes.
A village fuss.
A pause at a gate.
A recognition that doesn’t ask to be proved.
If quiet stories about attention and silence are your thing, this one’s for you.
www.brittleviews.com/p/for-the-mi...
#ShortFiction #QuietStories #LiteraryFiction
A village fuss.
A pause at a gate.
A recognition that doesn’t ask to be proved.
If quiet stories about attention and silence are your thing, this one’s for you.
www.brittleviews.com/p/for-the-mi...
#ShortFiction #QuietStories #LiteraryFiction
A memory from my college years was the starting point, not the subject.
Test Pattern is about the quiet structures that form around things we stop noticing — and what shifts when they’re gone.
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#ShortStory #LiteraryFiction
Test Pattern is about the quiet structures that form around things we stop noticing — and what shifts when they’re gone.
www.brittleviews.com/p/test-pattern
#ShortStory #LiteraryFiction
Test Pattern
When I was at college, there was a young guy who raced around Wolverhampton dressed as a cowboy.
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January 25, 2026 at 1:56 PM
A memory from my college years was the starting point, not the subject.
Test Pattern is about the quiet structures that form around things we stop noticing — and what shifts when they’re gone.
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#ShortStory #LiteraryFiction
Test Pattern is about the quiet structures that form around things we stop noticing — and what shifts when they’re gone.
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#ShortStory #LiteraryFiction
Earlier this afternoon I got a call that looked official.
It wasn’t.
Caller ID can be spoofed. Paper trails don’t lie.
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It wasn’t.
Caller ID can be spoofed. Paper trails don’t lie.
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We’ll Call You Back From the Office Phone
A note on a sophisticated scam — and the one rule that shuts it down
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January 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Earlier this afternoon I got a call that looked official.
It wasn’t.
Caller ID can be spoofed. Paper trails don’t lie.
shorturl.at/yg8sM
It wasn’t.
Caller ID can be spoofed. Paper trails don’t lie.
shorturl.at/yg8sM
A story about a village garden, a bit of chalk, and the wisdom of not correcting everything.
Once in Pink. Once in Yellow — a new Maggie B. casefile.
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#ShortFiction #LitSky #QuietWriting #BrittleViews
Once in Pink. Once in Yellow — a new Maggie B. casefile.
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#ShortFiction #LitSky #QuietWriting #BrittleViews
Once in Pink. Once in Yellow.
Once in Pink.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:34 AM
A story about a village garden, a bit of chalk, and the wisdom of not correcting everything.
Once in Pink. Once in Yellow — a new Maggie B. casefile.
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If it lands, feel free to pass it on.
#ShortFiction #LitSky #QuietWriting #BrittleViews
Once in Pink. Once in Yellow — a new Maggie B. casefile.
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If it lands, feel free to pass it on.
#ShortFiction #LitSky #QuietWriting #BrittleViews
Next Time — an essay about waiting, and what changes once it’s noticed.
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#Writing #Essays #Attention #Memory
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Next Time
This is an essay about waiting—how it forms, what it teaches, and what it quietly takes with it.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Next Time — an essay about waiting, and what changes once it’s noticed.
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#Writing #Essays #Attention #Memory
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#Writing #Essays #Attention #Memory
Some turns aren’t yours to take.
Stayed in Her Seat — a story about restraint, attention, and the ethics of staying put.
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#LiteraryFiction #UnresolvedMoments #EthicalRestraint
Stayed in Her Seat — a story about restraint, attention, and the ethics of staying put.
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#LiteraryFiction #UnresolvedMoments #EthicalRestraint
Stayed in Her Seat
Stayed in Her Seat
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January 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Some turns aren’t yours to take.
Stayed in Her Seat — a story about restraint, attention, and the ethics of staying put.
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#LiteraryFiction #UnresolvedMoments #EthicalRestraint
Stayed in Her Seat — a story about restraint, attention, and the ethics of staying put.
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#LiteraryFiction #UnresolvedMoments #EthicalRestraint
New short story: What Needed Doing.
A childhood illness. A box of photographs. The way attention teaches its limits without saying so.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That’s where the story is.
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#shortstory #literaryfiction #silence #substack
A childhood illness. A box of photographs. The way attention teaches its limits without saying so.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That’s where the story is.
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#shortstory #literaryfiction #silence #substack
What Needed Doing
Some stories come from memory.
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January 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
New short story: What Needed Doing.
A childhood illness. A box of photographs. The way attention teaches its limits without saying so.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That’s where the story is.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-neede...
#shortstory #literaryfiction #silence #substack
A childhood illness. A box of photographs. The way attention teaches its limits without saying so.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That’s where the story is.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-neede...
#shortstory #literaryfiction #silence #substack
What was made public, and what was allowed to arrive, aren’t the same thing.
An essay on access, attention, and the quiet mechanics that let something remain visible without ever quite being heard.
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#Politics #Media #Attention
An essay on access, attention, and the quiet mechanics that let something remain visible without ever quite being heard.
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#Politics #Media #Attention
What Was Made Public
On access, attention, and the refusal of arrival
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January 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
What was made public, and what was allowed to arrive, aren’t the same thing.
An essay on access, attention, and the quiet mechanics that let something remain visible without ever quite being heard.
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#Politics #Media #Attention
An essay on access, attention, and the quiet mechanics that let something remain visible without ever quite being heard.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-was-m...
#Politics #Media #Attention
A sign suggests a safer route.
No one asks who put it there.
People adjust anyway.
A new Maggie B. Casefile—about small permissions, quiet hesitation, and the paths we don’t quite stop thinking about.
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#ShortFiction #MaggieB #SmallMoments #QuietAuthority
No one asks who put it there.
People adjust anyway.
A new Maggie B. Casefile—about small permissions, quiet hesitation, and the paths we don’t quite stop thinking about.
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#ShortFiction #MaggieB #SmallMoments #QuietAuthority
The Turn Not Taken
The Turn Not Taken
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December 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A sign suggests a safer route.
No one asks who put it there.
People adjust anyway.
A new Maggie B. Casefile—about small permissions, quiet hesitation, and the paths we don’t quite stop thinking about.
www.brittleviews.com/p/the-turn-n...
#ShortFiction #MaggieB #SmallMoments #QuietAuthority
No one asks who put it there.
People adjust anyway.
A new Maggie B. Casefile—about small permissions, quiet hesitation, and the paths we don’t quite stop thinking about.
www.brittleviews.com/p/the-turn-n...
#ShortFiction #MaggieB #SmallMoments #QuietAuthority
A short story.
Something has been adjusted.
Nothing has been acknowledged.
The Spare Key.
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#ShortFiction #Silence #Boundaries #Literary
Something has been adjusted.
Nothing has been acknowledged.
The Spare Key.
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#ShortFiction #Silence #Boundaries #Literary
The Spare Key
Some things change while we’re away.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A short story.
Something has been adjusted.
Nothing has been acknowledged.
The Spare Key.
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#ShortFiction #Silence #Boundaries #Literary
Something has been adjusted.
Nothing has been acknowledged.
The Spare Key.
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#ShortFiction #Silence #Boundaries #Literary
New short piece: Minutes.
A room, a set of documents, and the calm certainty of things being “recorded as understood.” Small gestures. No raised voices.
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#writing #shortfiction #literaryfiction #bureaucracy
A room, a set of documents, and the calm certainty of things being “recorded as understood.” Small gestures. No raised voices.
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#writing #shortfiction #literaryfiction #bureaucracy
Minutes
This story isn’t in The Shape of Silence. It’s new. That book is finished, and this isn’t a stray that wandered out of it after the fact.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New short piece: Minutes.
A room, a set of documents, and the calm certainty of things being “recorded as understood.” Small gestures. No raised voices.
www.brittleviews.com/p/minutes
#writing #shortfiction #literaryfiction #bureaucracy
A room, a set of documents, and the calm certainty of things being “recorded as understood.” Small gestures. No raised voices.
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#writing #shortfiction #literaryfiction #bureaucracy
A woman spoke.
Maggie listened.
Everything else is commentary.
She Spoke First.
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Maggie listened.
Everything else is commentary.
She Spoke First.
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She Spoke First
On what’s offered, what’s taken as given, and the quiet certainty of leaving a moment as it is.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A woman spoke.
Maggie listened.
Everything else is commentary.
She Spoke First.
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Maggie listened.
Everything else is commentary.
She Spoke First.
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A small thing appears where a boundary is supposed to behave itself. No one claims it. No one corrects it.
A story about restraint, tolerance, and what happens when nothing is moved.
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A story about restraint, tolerance, and what happens when nothing is moved.
Read, share & subscribe if you’d like more.
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Allowed To Remain
On what’s allowed, what’s tolerated, and the quiet authority of leaving things where they stand.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A small thing appears where a boundary is supposed to behave itself. No one claims it. No one corrects it.
A story about restraint, tolerance, and what happens when nothing is moved.
Read, share & subscribe if you’d like more.
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#literaryfiction #shortstory #quietfiction #MaggieB
A story about restraint, tolerance, and what happens when nothing is moved.
Read, share & subscribe if you’d like more.
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#literaryfiction #shortstory #quietfiction #MaggieB
A drawer jammed.
A note shifted.
Funny how the smallest breach can open something you weren’t ready to face.
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If it resonates, a reshare helps it travel.
#WritingCommunity #Fiction #LiteraryFiction
A note shifted.
Funny how the smallest breach can open something you weren’t ready to face.
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If it resonates, a reshare helps it travel.
#WritingCommunity #Fiction #LiteraryFiction
The Note That Changed Itself
Narrated by the author
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December 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A drawer jammed.
A note shifted.
Funny how the smallest breach can open something you weren’t ready to face.
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If it resonates, a reshare helps it travel.
#WritingCommunity #Fiction #LiteraryFiction
A note shifted.
Funny how the smallest breach can open something you weren’t ready to face.
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If it resonates, a reshare helps it travel.
#WritingCommunity #Fiction #LiteraryFiction
New Maggie B. story up today.
On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).
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If it lands with you, a repost or follow helps this little village travel farther.
#MaggieBCasefiles #Fiction #BrittleViews
On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).
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If it lands with you, a repost or follow helps this little village travel farther.
#MaggieBCasefiles #Fiction #BrittleViews
The Way It Was Placed
On what’s moved, what’s meant, and the quiet honesty of things left slightly askew.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
New Maggie B. story up today.
On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).
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If it lands with you, a repost or follow helps this little village travel farther.
#MaggieBCasefiles #Fiction #BrittleViews
On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).
shorturl.at/Y5Z7l
If it lands with you, a repost or follow helps this little village travel farther.
#MaggieBCasefiles #Fiction #BrittleViews
Rachel and David meet at the hospice, not to mourn, but to prepare — to steady what’s left, to be present for what’s coming.
A new installment of Holding On is up.
Read, reflect, or share if it lingers with you.
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#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #LiteraryFiction #EmotionalResilience
A new installment of Holding On is up.
Read, reflect, or share if it lingers with you.
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Chapter Twenty-Six – Holding On
Welcome back to Holding On.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Rachel and David meet at the hospice, not to mourn, but to prepare — to steady what’s left, to be present for what’s coming.
A new installment of Holding On is up.
Read, reflect, or share if it lingers with you.
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#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #LiteraryFiction #EmotionalResilience
A new installment of Holding On is up.
Read, reflect, or share if it lingers with you.
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#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #LiteraryFiction #EmotionalResilience
After a long journey home, I kept thinking about airports the way Maggie B does—places where people show more than they intend.
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#MaggieB #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory
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#MaggieB #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory
Paths Not Yet Taken
On waiting spaces, small shifts, and the choices that stay with us.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
After a long journey home, I kept thinking about airports the way Maggie B does—places where people show more than they intend.
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#MaggieB #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory
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#MaggieB #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory
Some stories come from the things we didn’t say, and the selves we handed away without noticing.
This new piece is about what happens when we finally listen back.
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#writing #essays #healing
This new piece is about what happens when we finally listen back.
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#writing #essays #healing
What Stayed Unsaid
There are things we carry without realising—half-formed thoughts, unsent messages, quieter versions of ourselves we didn’t yet know how to protect.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Some stories come from the things we didn’t say, and the selves we handed away without noticing.
This new piece is about what happens when we finally listen back.
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If it lands, a share or follow is always appreciated.
#writing #essays #healing
This new piece is about what happens when we finally listen back.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-staye...
If it lands, a share or follow is always appreciated.
#writing #essays #healing