A Heavenly Price by Mike Murphy | Script Revolution

A Heavenly Price

What is the moon worth?

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My short story.
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An alien ship lands on John Lewis’s farm. The aliens are known as the Kre. They need someone to make an important decision, and they have decided on John.

A deal is proposed where the aliens will eradicate Earth’s diseases in exchange for the moon. The decision, however, must be made by John.

John calls many people to his farm to get a variety of facts and opinions. He finally decides that Earth people everywhere should go through with the deal.

Elated, the alien leader offers to first cure John’s wife, Vicki, who suffers from diabetes. Unfortunately, the cure procedure doesn’t work when the Kre doctor learns that Vicki – and every human – lacks an organ very common among other alien races. Without this organ as part of the cure, the procedure is useless.

Submitted: October 30, 2024
Last Updated: October 30, 2024

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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). In 2020, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the Unique Voices Screenplay Competition from Creative Screenwriting magazine. The following year, his TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad” was a quarter-... Go to bio

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