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The Turn Not Taken
The Turn Not Taken
 • Robert M. Ford
The Spare Key
Some things change while we’re away.
 • Robert M. Ford
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.
 • Robert M. Ford
She Spoke First
On what’s offered, what’s taken as given, and the quiet certainty of leaving a moment as it is.
 • Robert M. Ford
Allowed To Remain
On what’s allowed, what’s tolerated, and the quiet authority of leaving things where they stand.
 • Robert M. Ford
The Note That Changed Itself
Narrated by the author
 • Robert M. Ford
The Way It Was Placed
On what’s moved, what’s meant, and the quiet honesty of things left slightly askew.
 • Robert M. Ford
While the World Turned (A Tongue-in-Cheek Accounting)
Six weeks of motion, memory, unfinished business, and the small acts that kept everything from coming undone
 • Robert M. Ford
Chapter Twenty-Six – Holding On
Welcome back to Holding On.
 • Robert M. Ford
Paths Not Yet Taken
On waiting spaces, small shifts, and the choices that stay with us.
 • Robert M. Ford
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.
 • Robert M. Ford

November 2025

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