Gabrielle Bell, Everything Is Flammable (Minneapolis: Uncivilized Books, 2017),
142. “[W]hen I was little, I was also afraid of escalators. It was because a
relative told me that sometimes an escalator would grind up children who didn’t
tie their shoes.”
Fran Krause, Deep Dark Fears (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2015), Fear #53.
Unpaginated.
“My mom told me that, if I rode the
escalator with my shoes untied, it would grab the laces and suck me under.”
