Rats (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #54 extract: Rats (2016)

This honestly makes you want to crawl into a plastic bubble and drink antiseptics. I can't the stop disgust shivering over my skin and snaking through my hair. I don't want to leave my room. I don't know if I'll be able to sleep. 

What are these little creatures who probably outnumber all of us, who strike fear into basically all of us, who can infect and kill us, who will likely outlast us? Are we supposed to understand and study them? Are we to poison, stomp on, hunt, stab and tear them apart? Should we eat them? Should we pray to and live alongside them? Is there any point? 

Rats presents these questions quite graphically and a little too emphatically, leaving a little objectivity to be desired. Nonetheless, it puts across what it puts across and it doesn't leave your system easily. Watch at your own peril.