Synopsis:
The City of Paris is infested by rats. There are so many of them, they even don’t care for hiding during the daylight. Luckily there are exterminators, working day and night to control the plague.

Thank God there are exterminators...

Genre: Mystery

Type: Short Story

Words: 1,643

Released: January 28, 2017

Manuscript finished: January 28, 2017

Inspiration: 

A news flash on the rat plague in Paris, and maybe the Disney movie 'Ratatouille', brought this to my mind. (First named this story 'Deratisation', but eventually preferred the title 'Ratify').

List of characters

Characters alphabetical by last name. Nicknames and characters only known by their first name or their last name, are given underneath this list. Unnamed characters are not listed!

• Cécile - friend
• Jean Calmant - protagonist. (Adapted the name of Jeanne Louise Calment, who died in 1997. She became 122 years of age; the oldest human ever).

Remarks:

Published in Vinyed #3 (January 9, 2024)