Selected Writing
Chas’s published work includes fiction, narrative non-fiction, reviews, and essays. A few short selections are featured on a rotating basis here.
A record store in Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Michael Voelker (CC BY 2.0)
“You were dancing a lot, and maybe you were going to have to do it all again, fight your own blood of all fucking things, or alternatively just curl up and die, die in your sex-soaked bed and be buried with him standing at an indeterminate distance from your grave.”
Originally published by Waxwing, 2024.
Neonatal intensive care unit. Released into public domain at Wikimedia Commons.
“Less than an hour on the earth and already his existence is impossible outside of this place that measures his life on two charts: one for vitals, one for billing.”
Originally published by Pithead Chapel, 2023.
Plum Island Lighthouse, Rhode Island, 2007. Released into public domain at Wikimedia Commons.
One-Star Google Maps Review
of a Rhode Island Lighthouse
“Let what is lost stay lost. Let those foolish enough to come close to us be torn asunder. When darkness falls, let it be absolute.”
Originally published by Maudlin House, 2023.
Guy Debord
“We worry that love is just another facet of our desire to consume. I love what you’ve done with this new furniture. I love these leftovers I scarf out of the fridge at one in the morning. I love you.“
Originally published by theNewerYork, June 2014.
Republished by Derelict Lit, February 2019.
Versions of this piece were featured in readings at the New York Public Library in 2012 and Le Poisson Rouge in 2014.
Stencil of Guy Debord, Lyon, France, 2008. Photo by biphop (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)