Some Books Should Be Tasted…

English philosopher and statesman, Francis Bacon, is known to have coined the phrase: “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” I’m of the impression that he was speaking more to the philosophic/scientific side of reading—in that some books are valuable for scanning and sifting through…

Last Wave

Be aware of the graphic imagery in this piece. A short story that was first published in The Yellow Chair Review’s “Horror Issue,” October, 2015. In fact, this was my first official publication. What a way to start, huh? It began as a project in class; our objective was to start with one solid sentence and try to top it each time. One can only imagine what my state of mind was that day…

— C.M.