So, You Found Me. Now What?

Welcome to Brittle Views.

I’m Robert Ford, and this is Brittle Views—a space for writing that lives in the quiet corners: memory, family, grief, small reckonings. The kind of things that stay with you, even if you can’t always name why.

I write essays, short stories, poems—and now a novel—all circling one question:
What does it mean to carry what we know, and keep becoming anyway?

Weekly Anchors

📖 Holding On (Wednesdays)
A serialized novel about love, grief, and the long arc of goodbye.
It began as a short story inspired by a real-life hospice that once cared for my father.
It became something more—a slow unfolding of memory, family, and the moments that linger when we’re not quite ready to let go.

⏳ Flashback Fridays
Each week, I revisit something from the past—an old essay, story, or scrap of memory—and look at it again.
Sometimes I revise. Sometimes I just see it differently.

🎧 Why So Many Stay

About 90% of my pieces include narrated audio—because some stories want to be heard, not just read.
Many readers listen while walking, or read and listen together.
If that’s your rhythm too, you’re in the right place.

If you're new, a few pieces that might speak to you:

• Vulnerability Is My Superpower (poem)

• When It Matters Most (essay)

• The Quiet Crossing (poem)

• Where He Left It (short story)

• This Is Who I Am. This Is What I Do. (essay)

• This Is What Hope Looks Like (political essay)

📚 My First Book

The Shape of Silence
A collection of 18 quiet, introspective stories about memory, loss, and what’s left unsaid.
These aren’t loud stories. They don’t try to impress. They whisper.
And if you listen closely, they might stay with you.

Now available on Amazon Kindle (free with Kindle Unlimited).
Paperback and audiobook coming soon.

Thanks for being here. I don’t take it lightly.

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