A game you may not want to win.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
3pp
Genre:
Drama
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Based On:
My prose story.
Synopsis/Details
The bingo game at the nursing home is on. The gathered residents all sit with onlookers - big bruisers of guys - beside them to make sure they follow the rules. Seventy-five-year-old Herman doesn't want to be there. As the numbers are called onstage by a government agent, Herman's onlooker "reminds" him how to play. After a while, Herman gets a bingo. When the numbers are verified, he is asked to choose. He looks at his fellow residents, remembering happy times for all of them. When the agent insists, Herman chooses himself. He is quickly wheeled out of the home's common room to who knows where. One of the lady residents mentions what a nice guy he was and how much she'll miss him. Another wishes he would have chosen her, but tries to remain cheerful by mentioning that there's always next week.

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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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