I was searching for my Tax ID number in my email when a found an old copy of the script I sent to myself for back up. I almost forgot I wrote it. I wrote this not long after the Bush v. Gore election. The premise was simple, what if a blue-eye golden boy from…
Tag: Short Stories
Employee of the Month
Verna worked as a cashier at Savemoores Supermarket for 45 years. When she began her cashiering career, the store was a tiny convenience store. Today it’s a 75,000 square foot behemoth. It had three cashier lanes in 1974, and now it had thirty-one. On her last day, she worked her regular shift; 7 am –…
The Barren Pines (Weekly Writing Project)
I wrote this in script form with the intent of doing a short film. I’ve been enamored with Jersey folklore as far back as my memory goes. ____________ THE BARREN PINES EXT. WOODS – DAY Shots within a dark, gloomy forest, Tall pine trees shield most of the sunlight. The ground is sandy and covered…
The Haunting of Spill House
Julian and I wrote the framework of this story over some Bueno Y Sano nachos while John danced hip-hop next door. Our first story The Scary Derriery focused on potty talk. The second was about a kid who can’t stop picking scabs. The following is a short one warning kids what happens when kids don’t…
Drive Thru
Drive Thru A fictional tale inspired by a photo I had taken of a burned McDonalds I had made about ten years ago. ____________ File Number: 43423423_29_1 Recording Number 203322222_342_343_pm mcdonalds_arson TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW OF Doctor Joseph Sipnassy with Detective Steve Henry: Whereupon, the following proceedings were had in Bartlesville Police Department on October 14,…
Daylight Bleeds
I wrote this script almost twenty years ago. It chronicles an experiment on a man convicted of murder. His memory is erased, replaced with a new narrative and he’s released back into the public. I like the idea of rehabilitation but I’m sure I’d do everything differently now but enjoyed re-reading. The screenplay “Daylight Bleeds”begins…