This is more of a preview than a review, of the last tale in Appalling Stories 4, that I originally titled “Street-Fighting Man.” But the editor thought it should be simply “Hockey Man” since that is what the main character is called, when guised as his alter-ego.

Nick Polgar leads a double life. By day (normal days, anyway) he codes at a cubicle in silicon Valley for a typical SJW Big Tech junta. But when there is some head-busting to do during demonstrations (which turn into urban melees), he rampages through the streets as “Hockey Man.”

The former “goon” and “enforcer” on the ice armors up and wields a hockey stick in battle, putting his brawling experience to use against Antifa Blackshirts and other communist rioters–just like the ones burning America’s cities down lately in real life.

This yarn is more straight-up action than the others in Appalling Stories 4, and probably one of the longest in the anthology, too.