Find Me at the Roadside
Type:
- Short
Status:
- Example of work only
Page Count:
15pp
Genre:
- Crime, Horror
Budget:
- Shoestring
Logline:
Two thieves on the run with a hostage come upon a car wreck with a dead man at the wheel who seems to recover with each valuable that they plunder from the car.
Synopsis/Details:
A pair of bank robbers are still trying to work out what to do with a teenager they abducted from their last crime scene when they stop at a car accident on a lonely rural road.
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They’ll wish they had kept going.
As they ransack whatever valuables they can from the vehicle and its mysterious driver, who’s deceased behind the airbag, their temporary stop-off threatens to become permanent.
The thieves’ hostage, handcuffed to the bumper, watches in fear as the dead-as-a-doornail driver revives and launches a murderous rampage gainst
the duo.
What drives this killer from the dead, and will the teen be next?
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Note: As of June, 2018, this short and the 3 others I've written have been compiled into a feature anthology
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The Writer: Steve Garry
I wrote my first screenplay in 2008, at the age of 52. It was a surprise, yet predicable too, for composition was my favorite subject in my earliest years of elementary school. But somewhere between the ages of 10 and 52, I must have felt that writing wasn't a serious or possibly an attainable career. My writing methodology is unique because I use many of the same skills I used for decades as a software programmer. The stories must be both "logical" and "bug free". Oh, and hopefully, thought-provoking, entertaining, suspenseful, or humorous, often in the same script, with captivating characters and story lines, especially given the complex themes I often take on in my work. From satire to... Go to bio
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