[5] Ollmann's third collection of short stories, This Will All End in Tears (Conundrum Press, 2006) won the Doug Wright Award for Best Book, bringing praise from critics: "What contradictions, what energy, what tension, what struggle, what humour, what characters!"
Ollman's collection transport readers "into cramped and messy living rooms where we discard ourselves and want to stay," she said.
The semi-autobiographical book follows a hapless version of Ollmann as he pursues an affair with a children's music performer.
In a National Post review, critic Jeet Heer praised the book, remarking that, "The great strength of Mid-Life is Ollmann’s art, which might at a quick glance look unappetizing.
The book received generally positive notices, with a reviewer for Publishers Weekly noting, "Seabrook is just the sort of character that Ollmann is so good at rendering: a complicated, misunderstood, and underappreciated mess of a person whose life was fascinating and whose appetites were, quite literally, as strange as they come.