“The Scale of the Beast” by FDU MFA Faculty Rebecca Chace Published at LARB

Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA Creative Writing faculty Rebecca Chace’s piece, “The Scale of the Beast,” is a feature article from the LARB Quarterly Journal: Winter 2016 edition. Rebecca writes:

Jumbo was born in Ethiopia, but he died in show business at age 24. It was his fourth season with The Greatest Show on Earth, and he was out for his daily exercise along the train tracks when an unscheduled freight train came around the bend. Jumbo couldn’t scramble away fast enough.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Read more at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
 
Rebecca Chace is the author of Leaving Rock Harbor (novel), Capture the Flag (novel), and Chautauqua Summer (memoir).
 
 

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