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    The Final Ending?
    The Final Ending?
    The Final Ending?
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    The Final Ending?

    By William Mangieri

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    Space pirates? Dragons? A princess? An accountant’s true love? Who writes this stuff?
    With a seemingly immutable fate written by a hard-hearted author, what would you do? John Charming wants desperately to rescue his true love, but the creator of his particular story expects John to just sit back and accept his destiny. John has other plans. Read “The Final Ending?” to see what happens.
    “The Final Ending?” is a short space-fantasy fiction, and is also available in the collection “And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Mangieri
    Release dateDec 21, 2014
    ISBN9781310360961
    The Final Ending?
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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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      The Final Ending? - William Mangieri

      The Final Ending?

      by William Mangieri

      Copyright 2014 by William Mangieri

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      The Final Ending?

      1. You Have No Control Over Your Fate

      John was no one of importance. He had no particular talent, no inherited wealth, nothing that made him stand out from the crowd.

      Everyone has something special about them. How else did I rise to the important position I hold in accounting?

      Even his accounting position at Epic Astronomics made his

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