{"id":4004,"date":"2020-04-05T10:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2020-04-05T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:49:48","slug":"five-on-the-fifth-publishes-the-two-reasons-you-wear-a-black-suit-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/4004","title":{"rendered":"Five on the Fifth Publishes &#8220;The Two Reasons You Wear a Black Suit to Church&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveonthefifth.com\/vol-5-issue-6-table-of-contents\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FiveOnFifthIssue.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"459\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4005\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FiveOnFifthIssue.png 700w, http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FiveOnFifthIssue-300x197.png 300w, http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FiveOnFifthIssue-345x225.png 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning, online literary magazine <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveonthefifth.com\/\">Five on the Fifth<\/a><\/i> published Storey&#8217;s dramatic second-person essay &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveonthefifth.com\/vol-5-issue-6-story-1\">The Two Reasons You Wear a Black Suit to Church<\/a>.&#8221; This narrative confronts the stories we tell about suicidal thoughts and behaviors, as well as contemplation of the future and the past. The primary lenses for this interrogation are Storey&#8217;s personal struggles with suicidality and the suicide attempt of a close friend.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Content warning<\/u>: suicidal thoughts and actions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The essay can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveonthefifth.com\/vol-5-issue-6-story-1\">read in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is Storey&#8217;s third publication of 2020 and his 18th since October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Editor-in-Chief <a href=\"http:\/\/mudseasonreview.com\/2018\/03\/allow-your-readers-to-ache-with-your-words\/\">Mahdis Marzooghian<\/a> for selecting this piece, as well as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganstielstra.com\/\">Megan Stielstra<\/a>, who helped revise it through the <a href=\"https:\/\/eberly.wvu.edu\/news-events\/events\/093019author-talk-megan-stielstra-2019-virginia-butts-sturm-writer-in-residence\">Virginia Butts Sturm Writer-in-Residence program<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveonthefifth.com\/vol-5-issue-6-story-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BlackSuitsPreview-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"221\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4007\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BlackSuitsPreview-1.png 700w, http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BlackSuitsPreview-1-300x95.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, online literary magazine Five on the Fifth published Storey&#8217;s dramatic second-person essay &#8220;The Two Reasons You Wear a Black Suit to Church.&#8221; This narrative confronts the stories we tell about suicidal thoughts and behaviors, as well as contemplation of the future and the past. 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