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    Bugging Out
    Bugging Out
    Bugging Out
    Ebook29 pages24 minutes

    Bugging Out

    By William Mangieri

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    Change is hard to deal with under the best of circumstances, but what do you do when everything you know is disappearing around you? A lonely, cantankerous shopkeeper struggles to keep what’s left of his world. Will he succeed? Read “Bugging Out.”
    “Bugging Out" is a science fiction / fantasy short story, and is also available in the collection “Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Mangieri
    Release dateJul 17, 2013
    ISBN9781301436194
    Bugging Out
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    William Mangieri

    William Mangieri is a karaoke junkie, former theater student, and recovered wargamer who spends as much time wondering "what if?" as "why not?". He writes from Texas, where he and his family live at the mercy of the ghost of a nine-pound westie.William writes mostly speculative fiction (that’s science fiction, fantasy and horror), although he also has a detective series with a soft sci-fi element (Detective Jimmy Delaney.) He completed writing his first novel (Swordsmaster) in 2019; prior to this, he has honed his skills on short fiction. He has been published in Daily Science Fiction and The Anarchist, and six of his stories have earned Honorable Mentions in the Writers of the Future contest.

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