Donald Ray Pollock 
Holler / I Start Over (Storycuts) 

In “Holler“, when his wife throws him out, Tom shacks up with the family of a casual girlfriend. They leave it to him to bathe, shave and keep a jug of wine within a straw“s reach of their disabled patriarch.
In “I Start Over“, retirement has not been living up to Big Bernie“s expectations-not the expectations the television advertisements are peddling anyway. He treats himself to a souped-up 1959 Chevrolet, and this indulgence might just be what he needs to start over.
Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Knockemstiff.