Come Haltingly, On Lame Feet — Carl E. Reed

Stage: an all-night eatery in the early A.M. Dramatis personae: two women, a street gang, neo-nazi thugs, a Christian minister and an old man who claims to be Wotan. Cue winter storm and. action! (Note: inspired by Robert E. Howard's "The Gray God Passes" and Harlan Ellison's "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs." Originally published in slightly altered form in "newWitch" magazine, issue #10. All rights held by the author.)