Book description
In 'Fish Sticks', Del is washing his one good pair of black jeans on
the eve of his cousin's funeral. He imagines he can hear the sea off
the Florida coast in the rumblings of the machines, and casts his mind
back to a trip the two made to Florida when they were teenagers.
In 'Rainy Sunday', Sharon's husband hasn't been quite right since he
crashed the car and wound up with a steel plate in his head. Wet
weather tends to set him off on one of his spells. Reluctantly, Sharon
leaves him alone and takes off on a late-night mission to help her
aunt find some company.
Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were
previously published in the collection Knockemstiff.
Don Pollock grew up in Knockemstiff and worked in the Mead papermill
for thirty-two years before leaving to become a writer. He teaches
literature and composition at Ohio State University.
