Jane and Dan at the End of the World

by Colleen Oakley

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.

Jane often thinks all of the difficulty with parenting can be summed up by one sentence: Am I overreacting? And how 99 percent of the time, the answer is yes, but how is one to know when it’s the 1 percent of the time worrying is warranted? Frankly, it’s exhausting.

Right or wrong, he understands the societal hypocrisy that means his wife can ogle Harry Styles or Tom Holland, who are both nearly twenty years her junior, or any of those boys in that high school vampire show that she religiously watches reruns of solely because she finds them so attractive, but if he so much as glances at a woman in her twenties, he’s a creepy old man.