The Filled In Spaces

By Michael Overa

The stories in "The Filled In Spaces" investigate the intersecting lives of strangers and acquaintances, acknowledging that we are all a background character in someone else’s story. The stories investigate the nature of relationships and friendships.

Stories in the Collection:
Fix
Oxygen
Inevitable
Evidence of Life
Second Run
The Filled in Spaces
We Live Here Now
They Say
Potential Truth
Off the Tracks
The Endless Road

• Language: English
• Publisher: Unsolicited Press
• Release date: Nov 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370599479

Michael Overa

Michael Overa was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. After completing his MFA at Hollins University Michael returned to Seattle where he currently works as a writing tutor and is a writer-in-residence with Seattle's Writers In The Schools Program. His work has appeared in the Portland Review, East Bay Review, Fiction Daily, Inlandia, and Across the Margin, among others.

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