The Yoga-Workshop Paradox

I just got back into yoga. It took a while, largely because I was adjusting to life in an MFA program, the routine of writing for workshop, the rhythm of reading so many other people’s works while striving to work…

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Pilcrow & Dagger Publishes “Outside Looking In”

Last week, themed literary magazine Pilcrow & Dagger began its fifth year of publishing with a collection themed “The Survivor.” This collection includes Storey Clayton’s narrative nonfiction piece “Outside Looking In” about a particularly harrowing Uber ride in New Orleans.…

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Riggwelter Press Publishes “Lost and Found”

UK-based literary journal Riggwelter Press just published Storey Clayton’s essay “Lost and Found.” This essay examines Uber ridership through items accidentally discarded in the car, culminating in a poignant vignette. This work is the third excerpt from Clayton’s rideshare memoir…

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Montana Mouthful Publishes “Mortals”

The first-year literary journal Montana Mouthful just published its third issue online and in print. The collection, with a theme of “haunting,” includes Storey Clayton’s narrative nonfiction piece, “Mortals.” This work is an excerpt from Clayton’s rideshare memoir, Driving for…

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M_A

I have long joked that I’m the least educated person I know. It’s not true, of course – I’ve spent most of the last decade working with college students who, by definition, have less education. And there are a few…

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For the Record

I have long joked that I live my life as though I will eventually be worthy of an archivist. This has, at times, clearly been more than a joke. And is, arguably, a fancy way of saying that I’m a…

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Shoes on the Highway

Shoes on the Highway by Storey Clayton 6 April 2017 I saw two shoes on the highway one and then another as I sped up the overpass they were strewn, not placed on the road, not the shoulder clearly flung…

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Seventeen Years of Blogging

Yesterday was the seventeenth anniversary of Introspection, my first blog. It lasted for just seven years and change before the daily short-format gave way to this more haphazard long format, now nearly ten years into process. My first post was…

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