Blessed / The Fights (Storycuts)
Donald Ray Pollock / Dec 12, 2019
Blessed The Fights Storycuts In Blessed a thief s career is cut short when he falls from a rooftop Since the accident he has been subsisting on a disability cheque a potent painkiller prescription and having his wife sell her
In Blessed , a thief s career is cut short when he falls from a rooftop Since the accident he has been subsisting on a disability cheque, a potent painkiller prescription and having his wife sell her blood.In The Fights , Bobby has been off the sauce for five long months On the advice of his Alcoholics Anonymous mentor, he pays his family a visit in Knockemstiff whereIn Blessed , a thief s career is cut short when he falls from a rooftop Since the accident he has been subsisting on a disability cheque, a potent painkiller prescription and having his wife sell her blood.In The Fights , Bobby has been off the sauce for five long months On the advice of his Alcoholics Anonymous mentor, he pays his family a visit in Knockemstiff where even the wood smoke reminds him of whiskey While his father and brother amuse themselves by watching pre recorded boxing and his mother mopes in the kitchen, the inertia infusing his old home threatens to take hold.Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Knockemstiff.
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Donald Ray Pollock
Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954 and 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 2009, and still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy His first book, Knockemstiff, won the 2009 PEN Robert Bingham Fellowship His work has appeared in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou wester, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, Granta, NYTBR, Washington Square, and The Berkeley Fiction Review The Devil All the Time is his first novel.