{"id":4076,"date":"2021-07-25T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T23:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2021-07-25T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T23:57:22","slug":"upstreet-publishes-the-thirteen-mythological-ways-i-almost-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/4076","title":{"rendered":"Upstreet Publishes &#8220;The Thirteen Mythological Ways I Almost Died&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UpstreetStack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"597\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4077\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UpstreetStack.jpg 700w, http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UpstreetStack-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week, the award-winning print literary journal <i><a href=\"https:\/\/upstreet-mag.org\/\">upstreet<\/i><\/a> published my list essay &#8220;The Thirteen Mythological Ways I Almost Died.&#8221; The essay strings together dangerous and frequently retold moments from my life, from near-death experiences in infancy to my suicide attempts and other brushes with suicidal ideation to car accidents and near-misses. Along the way, I grapple with the precarity of life and the narrative of death.<\/p>\n<p>I am deeply grateful to my former classmate in the WVU MFA, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaseyrshaw\">Kasey Shaw<\/a>, and <i>upstreet<\/i> Creative Nonfiction Editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/mackenzieepping.com\/\">Mackenzie Epping<\/a>, for their tremendous help with revising and editing this piece. Thanks also to <i>upstreet<\/i> Editor-in-Chief, Vivian Dorsel, and her entire team for their selection and support.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of this print-only publication can be ordered at the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/upstreet-mag.org\/order\/\">upstreet<\/i> website<\/a>, but are also available at brick-and-mortar Barnes &#038; Noble and Books-A-Million locations. Buying the magazine at the bookstore both supports the ongoing distribution of <i>upstreet<\/i> and the existence of in-person bookstores. As it&#8217;s been a lifelong dream of mine to walk into a bookstore and see my words for sale, I can&#8217;t wait to visit a local Barnes &#038; Noble myself in the coming days!<\/p>\n<p>I hope the following preview will whet your appetite for this gripping, harrowing, and ultimately contemplative read:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13MythPreview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4078\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13MythPreview.jpg 700w, http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13MythPreview-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the award-winning print literary journal upstreet published my list essay &#8220;The Thirteen Mythological Ways I Almost Died.&#8221; The essay strings together dangerous and frequently retold moments from my life, from near-death experiences in infancy to my suicide attempts and other brushes with suicidal ideation to car accidents and near-misses. Along the way, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,32,87],"tags":[5,6,72,88],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-but-the-past-isnt-done-with-us","category-telling-stories","category-the-mfa-years","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-but-the-past-isnt-done-with-us","tag-telling-stories","tag-the-mfa-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}