by Joe Romero
To pay for college, Leo Clarke took the midnight shift at Smiley's, a 24-hour fast-food joint. He expected greasy floors and drunken customers. He didn't expect the rules. Rule #1: Serve everyone, no exceptions. Not the man whose legs are too long, not the child with eyes of coal, and not the static that orders through the void. A stained employee handbook is his only guide to surviving the eldritch horrors that crave a combo meal. But every night, a shadowy figure named Bill waits for him to make a mistake. Because at Smiley's, the penalty for bad service is your soul.