Goddesses, Sleep with the Snowmen, and Other Fantasies: A collection of ten short, speculative fictions

by William Mangieri

A collection of ten short speculative fictions by William Mangieri, in which we learn some life
What constitutes a true waste of time.
Sentience is in the eye of the beholder.
Things aren’t always where they should be
Perception is reality
What to expect if you were to talk to God
Don’t be too eager to perform labors proffered by goddesses
No crime is victimless
A love that lasts forever may not be a good thing
Be good, or the jingle bells may toll for thee
The voices in your head can be real

Includes the short

There’s No Present Like the Time
Peter and Vanessa have different ideas. While on a rare vacation, Peter chances to meet a mysterious woman who brings these differences to a head.

Cellfishness
See Miss Ribo try to keep her students from getting the wrong ideas in biology class.

Out of Place
Sue’s her world is changing; an uncomfortable situation for someone who expects everything to stay where it belongs. Who knows where it will all end up?

All the News That’s Fit for You
Where your point of view dictates your reality.

Interview with the Blue Neon God
A novice reporter is sent after a story that could be a career-maker - or something more.

Goddesses
A young man lands a seemingly perfect job serving a beach full of scantily clad women who are more than they appear.

Victimless
A murderer's defense team proposes a novel approach to making crime truly victimless.

Stalking Rebecca
A reluctant date hears a tale from a no-longer-secret admirer explaining her fate.

Sleep with the Snowmen
A petty criminal crosses the wrong fat man, and is offered the opportunity to change his path

The Voices
Billy Thompson knows the voices are real, even if they are just in his head. Or are they?

100 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2018

About the author

William Mangieri writes mostly speculative fiction, in the flavors of sci-fi, fantasy, and VERY light horror, seasoned with some humor. He does also write some detective stories (check out his Detective Jimmy Delaney series.)
He honed his skills on short fiction (he has about 100 stories available) and completed writing his first novel in 2019 (Swordsmaster - since re-released as Swordsmaster: Awakening) which was followed by Swordsmaster: Deception in 2023. He's been published in Daily Science Fiction, The Arcanist, Flash Fiction Magazine, and DreamForge, with yet another story pending in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Eight of his stories have earned Honorable Mentions in the Writers of the Future contest.