rolling pin. Watch how many times they nod their heads in response to the little details of the story; i.e. the sniping between partners, the screaming, the frustration.
Terrible ending, however.
I have a personal saying: In art, current topicality hastens irrelevance.
What that means: the more you make your work about a specific current topic or in line with a particular current movement, the more likely it is that your work will be forgotten when this fad passes. The fifty-cent tables of 2015's rummage sales will be filled with tales of demon-hunting werewolf/vampire/half-fairy/necromancer babes in black leather, and no-one will care. Those same tables in 2020 will be filled with stuff about the zombie apocalypse. Just as those tables are now littered with the post-nuclear apocalypse tales from my early teen years, and the cyberpunk of my late teen years. Yes, I know I defended topical work, but whenever you choose to participate in a fad, you risk being lost in the tide.
If this story hadn't had the
'oh, it's the zombie apocalypse' reveal, and had left the malady and the motivations secret, it would have been a classic.