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Seventy-One Percent
On what a single number can’t hold
12 hrs ago • Robert M. Ford
We Never Told Her She Was Dying [Narrated]
She never asked. We never said.
Jul 1 • Robert M. Ford

June 2026

How Can I Be Sure
David Cassidy was asking. I wasn't listening.
Jun 30 • Robert M. Ford
You Just Missed Hannah Gordon
Some afternoons you spend listening to someone else's records.
Jun 27 • Robert M. Ford
Someone You Shouldn’t’ve
The winter of '78, the long way round, and a record that knew more than I did.
Jun 26 • Robert M. Ford
American Flag Blue [Narrated]
In the age before the nation’s two hundred and fiftieth feast day, there lived a man of gold towers who looked upon the reflecting pool and found it…
Jun 21 • Robert M. Ford
Pinned
A Maggie B. Casefile
Jun 13 • Robert M. Ford
Late Vocabulary
I came to a lot of this language late.
Jun 11 • Robert M. Ford
The Sixth Ball [Narrated]
I can hold five things at once.
Jun 10 • Robert M. Ford
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Part Three: Not Suitable Material
Jun 7
Off
The air freshener was still on the string — pine, nearly gone.
Jun 6
Cum On Feel The Noize
Part Two: The Snap
Jun 5 • Robert M. Ford
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