I first read years ago and it was only a 2* at the time but age has made me appreciate it more.
The audio version of the story in the collection Just After Sunset is read by the author.

It opens with an empty nest couple in the middle of their morning routine. We hear the wife's internal thoughts and they are interesting, realistic for many. I even had to add a quote to GRs. If this is where you come out of the deep dark woods, Janet thinks, this . . . this parking lot . . . then why does anyone do it?

A couple over the hump, stuck in their routines... The husband tells the wife he had a bad dream last night, not sure if wants to share it with her. "Harvey never dreams..." The wife's anxiety starts pumping and she regrets pondering how routine, dull life has become. She wishes she could go back to that feeling but the shadows are growing.

What was Harvey's dream? If you say it out loud it's not supposed to come true. Or does she have that backwards? ( )