Tillie is selling everything and preparing to move to Tucson, unable to stand being in her house after the dead ate her husband and children. Drinking to forget what's happened and what the world used to be, she's desperate to get out.
Jacks and Arthur are young kids preparing to move into their first home together, and they need furniture to fill the space. Having grown up with the realities of the walking dead, they're pragmatic and well-armed.
A yard sale brings the three together in a generation clash between those who remember the world before the undead and those who grew up knowing fighting zombies was their birthright.
Everything Must Go by Peter M. Ball is part of the Red Rain Collection, a fiercely weird series of short stories which blends the dirty realism of Raymond Carver with the absurdity of the zombie apocalypse. Snack on these delicious morsels of fiction between longer reads or devour the entire series in a single sitting.