The Chez Dispenser

  • the end of the end.

    The professor flipped the switch and saved the world. Continue reading

    the end of the end.
  • last shift.

    WARD 9, the sign above the door reads. AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. Continue reading

    last shift.
  • the featherless indian.

    My first Lumbee-adjacent assignment during my early days at my current gig — staff writer at Tribal Business News — turns out to be an entrepreneur profile on Moore Brothers’ Beef, a North-Carolina-based cattle outfit built on the remains of… Continue reading

    the featherless indian.
  • on what it costs.

    Every so often I go back and check on her — to find out whether anything new has come up. She’s a bright smile in one photograph, a playful sneer in another. Her friends miss her, they tell me. They… Continue reading

    on what it costs.
  • angry.

    I have one summer memory I always come back to, whenever June rolls in. It was 2007. (God, that was 16 years ago.) I went with some friends down to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. It was a pretty impromptu… Continue reading

    angry.