{"id":47,"date":"2013-02-18T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2013-02-18T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:11:05","slug":"short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/short-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-0\" class=\"post-0 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockjawmagazine.com\/minutiae\/part7part2\/7-12\/\">Let Us Choose to Adventure (Part 7.12) &#8211; Lockjaw Magazine<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockjawmagazine.com\/minutiae\/part7part2\/7-12\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281 align left\" style=\"margin-right: 4px; margin-left: 4px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Let Us Choose to Adventure - Lockjaw Magazine\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tk01zPG5_400x400-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Let Us Choose to Adventure - Lockjaw Magazine\" width=\"67\" height=\"150\"><\/a>This is an old-fashioned choose your own adventure about&#8230; well, ravens? Cages?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the lady from your kitchen and even though she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now standing she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still small, no taller than four crockpots stacked together. You know this for reasonably certain because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holding a crockpot and it covers, easily, a quarter or her body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockjawmagazine.com\/part1\">Start from the beginning&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockjawmagazine.com\/minutiae\/part7part2\/7-12\/\">Or throw caution to the wind and start from my part&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-1\" class=\"post-1 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\/history.html\">The History of the Mayan Ball League<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\/history.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 4px; margin-left: 4px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"The History of the Mayan Ball League\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/history_mayan_ball_league_cover.jpg\" alt=\"The History of the Mayan Ball League\" width=\"67\" height=\"100\"><\/a>This is the story of the very first professional sports league and the longest lockout of any organized sport in the history of the world. It has intrigue! Beheadings! World tours! Chickens! Ducks! You can&#8217;t really ask for more from a story than that.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/history-mayan-ball-league\/id587278189?ls=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\/images\/ibooks_icon@36x36.png\" alt=\"The History of the Mayan Ball League\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"2\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AN3CA0M\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00AN3CA0M&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=matthanlon-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\/images\/kindle_icon@36x36.png\" alt=\"The History of the Mayan Ball League\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"2\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-history-of-the-mayan-ball-league-matthew-hanlon\/1113959239?ean=2940015723922\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\/images\/nook_icon@36x36.png\" alt=\"The History of the Mayan Ball League\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"2\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/The-History-Mayan-Ball-League\/book-N9KSvI-kwU2Xw0H1hcpREQ\/page1.html?s=3QVUTyA3rUG6chx4iW5Hog&amp;r=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\/images\/kobo_icon@36x36.png\" alt=\"The History of the Mayan Ball League\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"2\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-2\" class=\"post-2 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddvillepress.com\/pdf\/The-Oddville-Press-Vol2-Issue2.pdf\">The Man in My Nostril<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddvillepress.com\/html\/download.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 4px; margin-left: 4px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"The Man in My Nostril in the Oddville Press\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/OddvillePress-issue-2-vol-2_1.jpg\" alt=\"The Man in My Nostril in the Oddville Press cover\" width=\"71\" height=\"100\"><\/a>This is the story of a man, a smaller man, nasal rinses, babies, and beer.<\/p>\n<p>Published in May 2014 in <a title=\"Oddville Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oddvillepress.com\/\">Volume II, Issue 2 of the Oddville Press<\/a> [<a title=\"Oddville Press PDF Download Volume II Issue 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oddvillepress.com\/pdf\/The-Oddville-Press-Vol2-Issue2.pdf\">direct link, PDF, 8.9MB]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-3\" class=\"post-3 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1613420293\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=matthanlon-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1613420293\">Just Add Water (And Extra Innings)<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/final_fenway_fiction_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-288\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/final_fenway_fiction_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Final Fenway Fiction\" width=\"68\" height=\"100\"><\/a>Published in the <em>Final Fenway Fiction<\/em> collection, &#8220;Just Add Water&#8221; is about becoming a fan, being a fan, and a run-in with the TSA.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1613420293\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1613420293&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=matthanlon-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/buy-from-tan.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\/\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=matthanlon-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1613420293\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-4\" class=\"post-4 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1579401430\/matthanlon-20\">The Curious Case of Doctor Belly and Mister Itcher <\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/further_fenway_fiction_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-289\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/further_fenway_fiction_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Further Fenway Fiction\" width=\"62\" height=\"100\"><\/a>Published in the <em>Further Fenway Fiction<\/em> book, this story details the rise (and fall, mostly the fall, actually) of a promising young pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1579401430\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1579401430&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=matthanlon-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/buy-from-tan.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\/\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=matthanlon-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1579401430\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-5\" class=\"post-5 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1579401198\/matthanlon-20\">The Long, Dark Voyage<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fenway_fiction_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-287\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fenway_fiction_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Fenway Fiction\" width=\"62\" height=\"100\"><\/a>The story in the first <em>Fenway Fiction<\/em> collection, &#8220;The Long, Dark Voyage&#8221; is about what really happened that winter after which Johnny Damon arrived at spring training with a full caveman-style beard on.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1579401198\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1579401198&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=matthanlon-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/buy-from-tan.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\/\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=matthanlon-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1579401198\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-6\" class=\"post-6 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\"><\/article>\n<article id=\"post-7\" class=\"post-7 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2>FREE STUFF<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-8\" class=\"post-8 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>&nbsp;<\/header>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-9\" class=\"post-9 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/\">Sane Magazine<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sane_cover.png\" alt=\"Sane Magazine\" width=\"110\" height=\"100\"><\/a>Sane Magazine is a now-dormant online magazine which was founded in 1991 in the back of a clam shack in Charlton, Massachusetts as the Q.I. Newsletter. In 1993 the Q.I. Newsletter moved online on the Vassar College Library&#8217;s Iberia servers and grew into an online behemoth at sanemagazine.com throughout the 90s and into the next century, publishing weekly fiction and horoscopes. In October of 2008 Sane Magazine was mothballed. Here are a few highlights from over the years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now166.html\">Reward: Lost Sheep<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now168.html\">Since I Fell For You<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now164.html\">Utopia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now156.html\">Coals to Newcastle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now153.html\">Creepy Guy in the Basement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now51.html\">Things I&#8217;ve Learned<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now152.html\">The Salmon of Doubt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now170.html\">A Parable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now185.html\">Krapp&#8217;s First CD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now232.html\">The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now233.html\">OtherWorld<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now277.html\">The Woman Who Loved Derek Lowe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now285.html\">A Bit Like Paul (McCartney)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now280.html\">beautysleep<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/now273.html\">Alektorophobia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-10\" class=\"post-10 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a>Destiny Calling<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\"><a href=\"http:\/\/supertart.com\/publishing\/Destiny_Calling.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-280\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/destiny_calling_cover.png\" alt=\"Destiny Calling\" width=\"65\" height=\"100\"><\/a>&#8220;Destiny Calling&#8221; is a story written after reading Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s final novel, <i>Timequake<\/i>, 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.&nbsp;<strong><span id=\"destiny_download\" class=\"story_download\">Download <a href=\"http:\/\/supertart.com\/publishing\/Destiny_Calling.pdf\">&#8220;Destiny Calling&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-11\" class=\"post-11 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/supertart.com\/publishing\/Short_Story.pdf\">A Short Story<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">&#8220;A Short Story&#8221; 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&#8217;re in a timelapse photograph until the light finally falls. &#8220;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.&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;A Painful Case,&#8221; by James Joyce.&nbsp;<strong><span id=\"ass_download\" class=\"story_download\">Download <a href=\"http:\/\/supertart.com\/publishing\/Short_Story.pdf\">&#8220;A Short Story&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-12\" class=\"post-12 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry cols-short clearfix\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a>The History of the Universe<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">&#8220;The History of the Universe&#8221; was written for one of the last issues of <i>Vassatire<\/i>, Vassar College&#8217;s satirical magazine. It&#8217;s a fun and possibly juvenile story about a cow rebellion, something which obviously held great meaning for me.&nbsp;<strong><span id=\"history_universe_download\" class=\"story_download\">Download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanemagazine.com\/1_0\/publish\/content\/pdf\/HistoryOfTheUniverse-002.pdf\">&#8220;The History of&#8230;&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let Us Choose to Adventure (Part 7.12) &#8211; Lockjaw Magazine This is an old-fashioned choose your own adventure about&#8230; well, ravens? Cages? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the lady from your kitchen and even though she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now standing she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still small, no taller than four crockpots stacked together. You know this for reasonably certain because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holding a crockpot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}