Our narrator is taking his eighteen year old daughter to the airport where she is flying to Spain to join her boyfriend for a pre-college trip. He is also caring for his aging parents. This would be the circumstance my son finds himself in and I read the story with him in mind. Our narrator is suffering physical symptoms brought on by this double whammy. He has a wife, but she is doing important work so a lot of the everyday stuff falls on him. Also she is more at ease with life moving on than he is. A good story. I will look for more from Matthew Klam.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/hi-daddy-fiction-matthew-klam
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This does sound like a good setup for a story, Patti, and there are a lot of people in that life situation.
Don't know him, but it sounds an interesting story.
Currently reading the latest Ed Hoch collection, The Will-o'-the-Wisp Mystery. In 1971, he did 6 interconnected stories in EQMM, one a month, published as by "Mr. X." A prison escape leaves six criminals - some of them are murderers - free, and David Piper, "The Manhunter" of the Department of Apprehension, has to track them down. The second half of the book consists of the seven stories about Father David Noone, a Roman Catholic priest. They were published over a 40 year period.
I finally got the last of the collected Philip K. Dick story collections from the library - after waiting literally months, TWO copies came at once. This is The Minority Report, stories dated between 1954 and 1964.
Jeff, you'll enjoy THE WILL-O'-THE-WISP MYSTERY. I've read several of Philip K. Dick's collections. PKD was brilliant...but uneven.
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