Brittle Views

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Surplus to Requirements
It began, as birthdays sometimes do, with a cake nobody had agreed on.
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The tea was too milky.
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Just the Same
The programme cost two pounds.
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The Light That Stays
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What Stayed Unsaid
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She Stayed for Tea [Narrated]
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Things You Don’t Talk About [Narrated]
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We Will Find You
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When Stress Ends, the Body Speaks
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Best Left Till Last
It began, as slow removals do, with a table no one thought to defend.
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What the Pattern Asks For
Practical Shifts for a System That Has Been Listening
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The car smelled of someone else’s air freshener — pine, the cheap kind that hung from the mirror on a string.
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The Empty Chair
It began, not with a disagreement, but with an empty chair.
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Why the Pattern Thrives
The Systems That Reward Containment
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She Didn’t Open It
The ring light folded in three places.
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Filed, Not Taken
What the FBI saw, photographed, and left on the shelf
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Brittle Views
Brittle Views
Brittle Views is where I make sense of the world one essay / story / poem at a time—digging into memory, identity, politics, and the stories we tell ourselves. There’s tenderness, sharpness, and the occasional well-placed elbow.
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