Jeffrey Stone

Jeff Stone spent more than twenty-five years in advertising, persuading consumers to buy more of what they already didn’t need, until the pandemic made the arrangement first questionable, then untenable. He now works and writes in a small high school, where he is nominally (yet lovingly) employed. He lives with his wife, children, and a regal spaniel in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. His work has appeared in Invisible City, The Ocotillo Review, Rebellion Lit, and elsewhere. Though his work typically lies outside religious and spiritual terrain, the events that gave rise to this book forced his hand—and heart—to further examine his beliefs. What followed was a path from near agnosticism to the recognition that faith can exist without full certainty, guided by what remains divinely unexplainable.