Loosely Based: A Novel

by Storey Clayton

Matt Norton, high school class of 2000, is tired of Kansas. His divorced parents barely know him, his distracted girlfriend barely cares, and he needs a change. College offers the promise of freedom from all he has known and grown to hate. Antigone Edgewood, college dropout, is fleeing Chicago. Her abusive boyfriend has gone too far, and now she will go as far as she can to get away. A late-night diner offers the chance to sit down and contemplate her future. Joe Ewing is investigating what he secretly suspects to be the biggest crime of his career. "Loosely Based" is a story of interstates and intersections in modern American life.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

An aspiring writer for three of his four decades on the planet, Storey Clayton recently earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at West Virginia University (May 2021). He’s worked as a youth counselor, debate coach, strategic analyst, development director, rideshare driver, and poker player. His nonfiction has appeared in more than twenty literary journals, including Southeast Review, upstreet, Pleiades, Typehouse Literary Magazine, and Blue Earth Review. His coming-of-age novel "Loosely Based" was published in 2003. He has an essay in the recently published "Hindsight" anthology (ed. Steve Fowler) about the 2020 pandemic.