The Cage
“The editor requested a story in which one family member killed another. Unfortunately, the anthology project never came to pass, and, as I said in the story notes for The Cage, I instead published this in my long out-of-print short story collection Fear of Gravity. As an early tale, this was the first time I used the plot device of someone murdering their loved ones, but it’s a theme I returned to years later in a short story called “Bunnies In August” (which can be found in Deadite Press’s edition of Tequila’s Sunrise). Both stories were distinctly uncomfortable to write, which is one of the hazards of writing horror fiction for a living, I guess.
The characters of Tony and Vince, their mysterious boss Mr. Marano, and the “guy down on Roosevelt Avenue” have only a small walk-on roll in this tale, but they’ve had much bigger parts in several of my other works, particularly the novels Clickers 2 and Clickers 3 (both co-written with J.F. Gonzalez), and the short stories “The Siqqusim Wh...o Stole Christmas”MoreLess
The characters of Tony and Vince, their mysterious boss Mr. Marano, and the “guy down on Roosevelt Avenue” have only a small walk-on roll in this tale, but they’ve had much bigger parts in several of my other works, particularly the novels Clickers 2 and Clickers 3 (both co-written with J.F. Gonzalez), and the short stories “The Siqqusim Wh...o Stole Christmas”MoreLess
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