Her short stories have appeared in The Chariton Review and Sisters in Crime 5 .
Rampage illuminates the harsh, innate purity of violence enacted in pursuit of home and belonging.
This dark, disturbing novel will send shivers down the spine of every parent of a teenager. A hypnotic, disturbing, compelling story from a gifted writer, this book will be a welcome addition for readers who want something out of the ordinary. Ms. Chehak's sentences are often long and looping, occasionally breathless with detail. These are the questions that I want my students to explore with me not by merely reading and analyzing others' works of fiction, but by writing and coming to understand our own finding ways to render the 'real' world of perception and memory and time, translating experience into words, capturing character in narrative, and heightening emotional and material awareness with techniques of point of view and voice. We write, and then we write some more, and it is by way of our writing that we learn about our work and our world and ourselves.