Fractured Threads

Fractured Threads is a collection of ten interlinked short stories that follow the changing fortunes and relationships of several young people during the COVID-19 pandemic. From claustrophobic apartments to socially-distanced campuses, and the sunbaked freeways of Houston to the old growth forests of northern Wisconsin, these stories depict a lonesome, fractured age. Told in the yearning, neurotic voices of various twenty-somethings, the stories in Michael J. Vowles' debut title speak to a ...