Jack Mangan is mainly known for his Deadpan podcast, a regular show composed of humor, fiction, and music. Give the show a try, it’s a lot of fun.
I’ve known Jack for a number of years and he lives local to me. Of the writers appearing in 2020 Visions, he is probably the one I know the best. We met shortly after he and I both had a story appear in the penultimate issue of Neometropolis online magazine. We have been friends ever since.
His story, Dead Rookies, is one of the darkest stories in the collection. It posits that the economic conditions of 2010 continue to deteriorate, while corporate power continues to escalate. He carries this to the extreme, where people are willing to kill for the few available job openings and the wealthy need money only as a way of keeping score amongst themselves.
