My wonderful, loving father died of a heart attack on Friday night at the age of 74. He was in his beautiful home, with his wife of 44 years, talking to me on the phone when he collapsed. I am…
Category: But the Past Isn’t Done with Us
Brownie (2013-2022)
Brownie the Rabbit (~April 2013 – July 20, 2022) Last night, surrounded by her family at Mt. Laurel Animal Hospital, Brownie crossed the rainbow bridge. She had a long full life that spanned at least three states and multiple loving…
SEPTA September
I have a new job, and have for the last forty days, helping faculty in Drexel’s School of Public Health write and submit their grants, keep their grant budgets straight, report on their research when it’s over. It’s rewarding and…
Game 162, 2021
The Seattle Mariners are three years older than I am. I’m older than anyone on their roster by four years, but most of the team is much younger. Their manager, Scott Servais, was in Little League when two new franchises,…
Upstreet Publishes “The Thirteen Mythological Ways I Almost Died”
This week, the award-winning print literary journal upstreet published my list essay “The Thirteen Mythological Ways I Almost Died.” The essay strings together dangerous and frequently retold moments from my life, from near-death experiences in infancy to my suicide attempts…
Facebook, Creative Nonfiction, and the Demise of Blogging
Long time, no see. At least here. If you’d told me that I would have a child and it would be almost three months before any mention of it appeared on this website, I would have thought you were bonkers.…
Lunch Ticket Publishes “Ambiguity”
Lunch Ticket, the literary and art journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles, just published Storey’s essay “Ambiguity” in their new Summer/Fall 2020 issue. This is an exploration of his life with gender, through a chronological series…
Five on the Fifth Publishes “The Two Reasons You Wear a Black Suit to Church”
This morning, online literary magazine Five on the Fifth published Storey’s dramatic second-person essay “The Two Reasons You Wear a Black Suit to Church.” This narrative confronts the stories we tell about suicidal thoughts and behaviors, as well as contemplation…
Drunk Monkeys Publishes “The Revolution Game”
Today, independent online journal Drunk Monkeys published Storey’s political essay “The Revolution Game.” This essay ponders the question of why American Millennials haven’t rebelled against their society and instead seem to be laboring within a system that continually fails them.…
Mud Season Review Publishes “Unbecoming Doogie”
Mud Season Review, the international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, recently published their forty-fifth issue online. This issue features one story, one poem, and one nonfiction piece, namely Storey Clayton’s “Unbecoming Doogie.” This issue’s editor letter…