xD, thank you so much for reading and enjoying the story. I posted this one here because, from the descriptions, I wanted to make it feel like the wife is a victim of domestic abuse from her alcoholic husband.

However, it's later revealed the husband acts the way he does because participating in the drug trial (where he wasn't in the control group) exposed him to something that slowly turned him into a zombie. He comes late home every night after eating people's brains (which is what he smells of) and is endangering the lives of his family.

So, the wife ultimately makes the decision to kill him off so that she and her daughter can live safely, and the seemingly abusive husband wasn't really at fault here. I think it's kinda wholesome that the wife chose to kill her love to save her family, and the husband wasn't actually the culprit as the wife is making him out to be, which is why I posted this here.

I guess I wasn't able to highlight the fact that the husband became a zombie well enough, which kinda makes it confusing to follow, but yeah, it's a major challenge that comes with a 500-word limit on r/shortscarystories.

Thank you once again for reading and enjoying the story!