Dempsey's Debut

By William Mangieri

What would you do if abducted by alien mantises for some live entertainment, and that just because of your namesake? Jack Dempsey feels 'boxed' in when he's forced to carry on the family name, and certainly doesn't want to become part of the Krills' warped mating ritual. It’s hard to live up to your ancestors. Wonder how you’d fare? Read “Dempsey’s Debut.”
"Dempsey's Debut is a short, speculative fiction, and is also available in the collection “And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Mangieri
• Release date: Oct 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311832108

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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Dempsey’s Debut

by William Mangieri

Copyright 2014 by William Mangieri

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Dempsey’s Debut

The purpose of this tape is to prevent your hands from disassembling? Korlish asked, his clicking mandibles only barely clashing with an extraordinary command of English language pronunciation.

"Not exactly, Jack Dempsey said as he stifled a laugh.

The bluish, man-sized praying mantis hadn’t exhibited any signs of anger in the few months since Jack had been abducted and brought to Krill (either to become a part of the Korlish's small collection of off-worlders, or to augment his captor’s Earth Theater cast of organic robot replicas as the only authentic human being, Jack wasn’t sure.) Krill females (who outnumbered the males twenty to one) were the ones prone to rage