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.…
Newly founded literary journal Spitfire Literary Magazine just published Storey Clayton’s narrative nonfiction story “With Friends Like These.” This story puts readers behind the wheel for a memorable ride with a particularly inebriated rider at a critical juncture in his…
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…
Singapore-based online literary journal Eunoia Review just published Storey Clayton’s epic Uber story “Long Night’s Journey into Day.” This work is an excerpt from Clayton’s rideshare memoir, Driving for U: Behind the Wheel of a New Orleans Uber, recounting an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By any metric, 2017 has been a great year so far. Now that I’ve said that out loud (on print), in public, it feels like a jinx. And not just because of my erstwhile belief in Mack Truck Time, the…