Long before the National Hockey League invented a way of quickly and efficiently concussing players there was another league, the first league. And they had the art of messing with players' heads down pat. And the end of the world, too.
"Just Add Water" is a story about becoming a fan... being a fan... and a run-in with the TSA.
on Amazon."The Curious Case of Doctor Belly and Mister Itcher" is a story about a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox who has a curious tendency to fade miserably, some would say frightfully, in the second half of the season.
You will gain insight into just how far a player is willing to go to recapture some of that magic in a bottle called confidence, and what they think about out there, when they're on the mound.
"The Long, Dark Voyage" is a pure work of fiction. In it, this guy named Johnny Damon plays for the Boston Red Sox, has the looks of a caveman, and one wild offseason.
It may require a certain amount of willing suspension of disbelief, I'm sure. There are also rumors that this story was the original pilot for Lost, the hit television show on ABC.
"Destiny Calling" is a story written after reading Kurt Vonnegut's final novel, Timequake, and was started and completed shortly after the completion of my own Time, a novel.
It is a story, a Coleridge-ian story, of a young woman and a young man in a room in Denver who are going in vastly different directions. And it is a story about doing things and things just happening.
"A Short Story" is about sitting on the porch in the evening, when all of a sudden it hits you your kids are someday going to be doing the same thing you are, and you feel like you're in a timelapse photograph until the light finally falls.
"Many times she allowed the dark to fall upon them, refraining from lighting the lamp. The dark discreet room, their isolation, the music that still vibrated in their ears united them." - "A Painful Case," by James Joyce
"The History of the Universe" was written for one of the last issues of Vassatire, Vassar College's satirical magazine.
It's a fun, and possibly juvenile, story about a cow rebellion, something which obviously held great meaning for me.
Sane Magazine is a weekly exercise in fiction. However, it's discussed in spades in the online section. So we'll leave the discussion for there.
About the author
God Coffee, I Miss You is the forthcoming novel from Sane Magazine founder Matthew Hanlon. He is the author of Time: a novel. He lives in Winchester, Massachusetts, after winding his way from Santa Clara, California, London, and Brooklyn. There are no cows to speak of in any of those places, so it must have been Charlton, Mass., where he grew up, that provided the cow inspiration for "The History of the Universe."