Stories by John Riley

A Forest 2409 views
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Honor Grade 1627 views
Kepler On The Bus 1531 views
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After Baptism, He Speaks 1477 views
Mule 1475 views
Cake 1365 views
Ah Ha! 1522 views
First Job 1455 views
Chatter 1242 views
Tobacco 1635 views
Middle Age 1564 views
The Esso Roadhouse 1471 views
Julie in 2004 1339 views
Black Sweater 1203 views
Nietzsche 1329 views
Why Mr. Doss Had To Die 1584 views
Restaurant Rondo 1211 views
The Widow and a Portrait of Jesus in Grayson's Nursing Home 1238 views
I Knew Her 1300 views
Beasts 1258 views
The First Day 1249 views
Darwin at the Zoo 1261 views
Late Autumn 1453 views
Daily Bread 1262 views
Folly Island 1323 views
Over The Moon 1248 views
Winyah Bay 1337 views
Trash Burning, 1976 1120 views
Interstate 1426 views
Dumb Ass 1160 views
Air On The G String 1337 views
Sweet Pigeon 1303 views
How It Went Bad With Horsepen 1193 views
This Is 1233 views
Vivian 1343 views
Pirate 736 views
Plastic Jesus in an Upright Tub 1335 views
Salzburg 1069 views
Smoke 1545 views
Mercy Mercy Mercy 1268 views
Pirate 1569 views
Carriages Wait In Long Rows 673 views
Kitty Cat 1169 views
Another Dream 1044 views
By Saturday, We'd Be Singing 1205 views
Weed Fire 1025 views
Just Yesterday 778 views
Away From the River 993 views
The White Dogs Of West Emerald Street 1223 views
Permission to Go 1423 views
Decision Mountain 1072 views
The Well 1260 views
Widow Walk 996 views
Tractors 1289 views
2-100-Words 703 views
Double Sonnet I 1064 views
Hospital, or Depression III 765 views
Ceali 1280 views
My Own Gun 1014 views
Poem Written While Undergoing ECT 1078 views
One Story Above the Boy in an Old Car 1001 views
100 Words 1137 views
Goodbye, Me 788 views
Literature 827 views
Resolution 1177 views
(The Larger Structure) is the Poem 1161 views
Trick Horse 696 views
The Boss of Bosses 1404 views
My Grandmother Becomes A Young Widow 1392 views
Did You Get Two 1203 views
You Should Know 716 views
Christmas Email from an Aging Wicked Stepmother 1201 views

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John Riley

Location	Greensboro, NC
Occupation	Publisher
Website	http://temptedtostay.blogspot.com/

About Me

I fitfully manage a small educational publishing company and try to write when I get time. I'm married with two children and two Jack Russell terriers named Ted and Fritz. I've published some fiction and poetry in various places and hope to publish more.

Why do you write?

Writing is the only thing that keeps me from staring at the clock.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Changes almost daily. Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Eudora Welty, Clarice Lispector, Thomas Bernhard, Franz Kafka, Annabel Thomas, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Denis Johnson, W. G. Sebald, Denton Welch, Robert Walser.

Family Ties, War and Peace, Berlin Stories, The Metamorphosis, The Phototropic Woman, The Rings of Saturn, In Our Time, Collected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, War and War, The Great Gatsby, and whatever I happen to be reading that day.