Interview with the Blue Neon God

By William Mangieri

What would you expect if you were to talk to God?
A novice reporter is sent after a story that could be a career-maker - or something more.
"Interview with the Blue Neon God" is a short, speculative fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Mangieri
• Release date: Jun 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463263174

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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Interview with the Blue Neon God

By William Mangieri

Copyright 2017 by William Mangieri

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Interview with the Blue Neon God

It shouldn’t be so hard to find God.

The House of the Blue Neon God was seen on the outskirts of a town in the Midwest recently. I’d be more specific, but it wouldn’t do you or me any good – you could go out to check my story, but you’d find nothing, just a field with the grass so high, it looked like nothing else had ever been there. You’d be better off following him by rumor. Don’t waste your time on the coasts – he’ll be in flyover country, the kind of nowhere that any high-profile journalist would have worked his way out of. The kind of place no one who wants to be known would bother with, unless their editor sent them.

Of course, I’d need to have an editor first, and that job search wasn’t going well. Chicago didn’t pan out, and I