The Last House on Needless Street

by Catriona Ward

Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.

Everyone feels like that sometimes. Sometimes things get bad, and you can’t see a future ahead. It’s all cloudy, like the sky on a rainy day. But life moves very fast. Things never stay the same forever, even the bad things. The clouds will blow away.

It’ll pass.

The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.