I'm so torn on this. There were parts of the storytelling and world building that I genuinely enjoyed, I think Nat Cassidy is a good story teller. Especially for the horror genre. But the longer the story went on the more it became clear that this was a man's interpretation of who and what women are. Which is, sort of exactly the kind of perspective the story was clumsily admonishing. The concept is interesting, he should have given the idea over to someone who could have done it justice. Nat Cassidy has no idea what it's like to be an invisible, forgotten, middle aged woman, and it shows incredibly. But he still felt like it was important that this story come out in his voice, in his perspective. Even while admonishing patriarchy he is contributing. He argues with himself in the after word about whether this story was "his to tell" and I'm perfectly comfortable saying, it wasn't. But he told it anyway.