Book description
In 'Assailants', Del's wife hasn't left the house in six months. He
likes to escape the tedium of home life with his unhinged wife and
baby daughter by courting blackouts with alcohol and drugs. However a
trip to the late-night convenience store reveals a latent marital affection.
In 'Discipline', Luther Colburn has twenty-one inch arms and a
fifty-four inch chest. He struggles to instil the discipline that has
aided this extreme hypertrophy into his son and protégé, Sammy. When
Sammy's ideas run counter to his father's, Luther gets a late vision
of his son's unique merit.
In 'Honolulu', Howard Bowman is struggling to remember things. Every
morning his wife sets him a challenge or two to try and keep his mind
oiled and active. While the names of associates past and present elude
him, certain isolated events come back. He gets to thinking about one
evening on furlough in Honolulu.
Part of the Storycuts series, these three 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.
