Looking at Life through the Rear View Mirror by Robert M. Goldman Explores Memory, Love and Alternate Outcomes
Buffalo, United States, 11th Mar 2026 – In Looking at Life through the Rear View Mirror, author Robert M. Goldman presents a romantic speculative short story that blends personal history with science fiction to examine how memory, fate, and unresolved relationships shape a life. The story follows Bob Goldman, a retired advertising creative whose orderly present is disrupted when a scientific experiment allows him to observe moments from his past.
At the center of the short story is Bob’s long marriage to Ellen, the woman he identifies as the only love he ever truly returned. Despite a fulfilled life with her, Bob becomes fixated on an earlier relationship from his youth that ended without clarity and left lingering questions. Seeking emotional closure rather than change, he agrees to participate in an experimental project developed by a longtime scientist friend, Dr. Paul Tishman.
The technology, intended only to allow observation of past events, malfunctions and places Bob into an alternate version of his own life, one in which he married Susan, a former girlfriend, instead of Ellen. Trapped in this parallel timeline, Bob is forced to confront the consequences of emotional hesitation and choices made without full awareness. As he pieces together a life he does not remember choosing, the short story shifts from speculation to introspection, focusing on accountability rather than regret.
Goldman’s narrative moves between decades, relationships, and realities, using speculative elements as a framework for examining emotional truth. Rather than presenting time travel as a tool for correction, the book emphasizes understanding, particularly how different perspectives can redefine moments once believed to be failures. The story avoids simple moral conclusions, allowing relationships to remain complex and imperfect.
About the Author
Robert M. Goldman spent decades working in advertising, rising from Creative Copywriter to Creative Supervisor and Creative Director at multiple well-known agencies. Over the course of his career, he contributed to national campaigns for brands including Procter & Gamble, General Foods, Arm & Hammer, Citibank, Vicks, and Ovaltine.
He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife of over 50 years and regularly spends time with his extended family in Beverly Hills. Goldman describes himself as happiest at this stage of his life, though he continues to miss New York City. When not writing, he enjoys playing poker.
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