Hey baby, do you ask yourself sometimes what you need to be forgiven? Everything that you’ve ever done wrong is the reason that I’m driven straight to you… -Counting Crows, High Life I have trouble with forgetting. Or, better put,…
Category: Telling Stories
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…
El Portal Publishes “The Ping Not Taken”
El Portal, the eighty-year-old literary magazine of Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, just published Storey’s essay “The Ping Not Taken” as their May web feature. His first Uber narrative to be published in 2020 and thirteenth overall, this piece…
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.…
Pleiades Publishes “The Summer of ’46”
Earlier this month, Pleiades: Literature in Context published Storey’s political essay “The Summer of ’46.” This essay observes the fact that Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump were all born in the same summer, just 67 days apart,…
Launching StoreyClayton.com
For the first time since 2002, I have launched a new website. That’s not entirely true. I revamped several websites, including that of what is now CIS Gulf South (then CIS of Greater New Orleans, with this blog.) I’ve helped…
Unearthed Publishes “Playing Augmented Reality Games on the Eve of a Mass-Extinction”
Unearthed, the online literary journal of SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry, just published Storey’s extensively titled work “Playing Augmented Reality Games on the Eve of a Mass-Extinction.” This piece juxtaposes Storey’s pursuit of fantastic creatures in the augmented reality…