Cut Loose by Carl Conway

CUT LOOSE

A novel by Carl Conway

LONG DRIVES. BAD COFFEE.

Shift work. Overtime. Part time. Sometimes no time at all.

Charlie Wells punches a time clock like a real person. Like almost everyone else. He stumbles from job to job. Walking away from yet another makes the patterns impossible to ignore. One shift too many. One compromise stretched too far. This life he never meant to choose is his now.

From the overworked, shortchanged side of the American landscape, Cut Loose is part memoir, part surreal storytelling, Cut Loose exposes the underbelly of blue-collar noir. This is a story about the real American workplace. The life that happens between shifts. The bone-deep weariness that comes from selling eight-hour stretches of your life, one second at a time. And the aching ruin of a life squandered.

GET DIRT UNDER YOUR NAILS. THIS MIGHT BE YOUR STORY.

Carl Conway writes from Shenandoah County, Virginia. 

Cut Loose is his debut novel.