This was awesome. It was like sci-fi meets secret agent mission meets revolutionary tale. At least that’s what I thought.

However, I think that the zombies should have been left out. Perhaps something else would have been more effective because zombies seem a little bit cliched and comical in this story.

That said I loved the last line. Just maybe he could be purging something else.

Don’t get me wrong though, I love zombies.

You are not the first to not love the zombies. It was between that and aliens, and somehow it seemed like setting Paris on fire wouldn’t do enough to combat things that can travel between planets or galaxies. How about robots? Those can burn, right?

Thanks for reading!

Nope. Fire-proof.

(Never said I didn’t like zombies)

Oh no, I didn’t mean to imply that, just that zombies may not be right for this story. The other people saying that same thing also don’t dislike zombies, but found it off-putting. I would kill the last two lines entirely but I also kind of like the very last one.

How about salamander-types like in War with the Newts by Karl Capek? Or vampires? Or communists?

I actually like the zombies bit — and I’m not a fan of zombie fiction. Made that last line about fire all the more appropriate.

I hate zombies – but I thought it was very effective, mainly because zombies are the current shorthand for a hopeless, inescapable apocalypse. It fit with rest of the dialogue, with your two characters discussing burning Paris and the End of the World in such nonchalant terms. Cool, funny and well written.

I feel like zombies also have a whole world of implications dealing with the idea of intellectual mortality, the dumbing down of the world, that kind of thing, which corresponds well with the burning of a place rich in history and art. But at the same time, I don’t want to put people off because of the current overabundance of zombies in fiction and film.

I guess if enough people aren’t bothered by it, I’ll leave it alone. Thanks for stopping by, guys!