Access Today Assailants / Discipline / Honolulu (Storycuts) Produced By Donald Ray Pollock Presented As Publication

'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 latenight convenience store reveals a latent marital affection,

In 'Discipline', Luther Colburn has twentyone inch arms and a fiftyfour 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.
Donald Ray Pollock was born inand grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff, He dropped out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant, and then spent thirty two years employed in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio.
He graduated from the MFA program at Ohio State University in, and still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy.
His first book, Knockemstiff, won thePEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, His work has appeared in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Souwester, Chiron , River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, Granta, NYTBR, Washington Square, and The Berkeley Fiction .
The Devil All the Time is his first novel, .