The end of the zombie story slog

Crappy first draft of the zombie story? Done! And when I say crappy first draft, we're talking Crappy McCrapperson from Crappsville. But revision is usually the easier part of the process for me, so hopefully I'll have less trouble turning this mess into a not-so-crappy second draft. And hopefully it'll end up being much shorter than its current 9,100 words, because that's way too much zombie angst.  Just because my protagonist sings Wagner doesn't mean the story has to be as long as one of his operas.

Man, that is the longest it's ever taken me to write a damn story, in part because life got in the way for a bit there, and then because the weeks following life getting in the way have been full of some ongoing writerly self doubt. Blah.

Now I have to decide if I dive right into revisions, or if I switch back to the novel for a bit first.