Publisher's Synopsis
Another collection of six short speculative fictions by William Mangieri, in which we learn some life lessons: What it is to be humanMemory is grey and squishyThe past is all we can be sure ofIt's not over until it's overMaybe we can have it allWe are more than our statusIncludes the short stories: Mutiny on the Star-BoundA night at a carnival takes an odd turn for Martin Henshaw, a humble digital mechanic who is tricked into a job with Transgalaxian, tending cybers far from home. But when he finds himself in the middle of a mutiny on the Star-Bound, Martin begins to wonder: who's rebelling against whom?Reconcilable DifferencesMadeline doesn't have much hope for her forty-six year marriage; Carl just refuses to remember what 's important. What hope could there be, with all the irreconcilable differences in the way they each see things? Maybe Memory Replacement Therapy holds the answer.New AntiquesTim Crabtree takes time out of his daily harassment by the local bullies to wonder why his new neighbors have built a forty-foot pole in their backyard. Are they trying to get hit by lightning? If he only knew...Dead End JobsBryan Riggins doesn't know how long he's been drifting around, but he needs a change, and finds himself waiting in line for a job interview. But what waits for him behind that door?The Re-Entanglement of Grant DeckerAre we simply the sum of the choices we've made? What happened to all the other possibilities? Grant can't keep his reality in focus, and he doesn't know whether his life is coming apart or coming together. He's never been one to talk to himself, but maybe it's time. Anti-SocialA home body struggles to break social conventions and reach out into a world that's becoming less and less substantial. How do you make yourself real?
