Huge thank you to all the Kickstarter backers who made this project a success! Claw Machine: The Anthology is out in the world at last, and it includes my horror story “Narrowly, Narrowly Caught.”
I aimed to combine a lot of elements in this one: eerie omens and childhood chants, principles of economics (which I studied in college), emotions at milestone events like grad night or a class reunion, and applying a musical “soundtrack” to accompany certain events on the page. And a claw machine, of course.
I started this story while vacationing in San Francisco last year, so public transportation was also on my mind as my family took BART and Muni everywhere. This is the first of two horror stories of mine coming out this year which feature light rail trains! Make of that what you will. I actually hate driving and rather like trains.
If you couldn’t make it to our in-person launch party for this anthology, we’ve got an online reading scheduled for Tuesday, June 24th at 7pm PDT, hosted by Vintage Books.
