An Earth astronaut faces a maddening sentence in an alien prison for accidentally killing a child.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
6pp
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
17+
Based On:
My audio script.
Synopsis/Details
When an astronaut accidentally kills an alien child in a sandstorm, he finds himself imprisoned in a cell where he can almost constantly hear a recording of the child crying. He fears he will go mad, but the computerized warden has been programmed to take him to the very brink of his sanity and then stop. . . for a little while. He is even more shocked when his keeper tells him that, since he is now living on this alien planet and breathing its air, he will live to be over 200 years old - spending all of his extended lifespan in that cell, listening to that crying.

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The Writer: Mike Murphy

Mike, a four-time Parsec Awards finalist, has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas. He’s won a dozen Moondance International Film Festival Awards (winner, finalist, and semi-finalist) in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories. A more complete list of awards is presented below by year. In 2025, his TV pilot script Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator was a quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9), Solutions, Inc. (another TV pilot script) was a quarter-finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Pilot Screenplay Competition, short screenplay The Price of Friendship was a semi-finalist in the Filmmatic Short… Go to bio
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