Smoking isn't good for you.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
1pp
Genre:
Horror
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
17+
Based On:
My short story.
Synopsis/Details
Kyle, a social outcast, is a big smoker. Cigarette butts litter the floor by his recliner. Sensing something wrong, he rises, taking an unseen thing with him, and shuffles to the kitchen. There, we see that the thing is the hollowed-out head of a man, and it is loaded with cigarette butts. Kyle observes his human ashtray's bad shape and tosses it into the trash. He opens his refrigerator, where another half-dozen heads are waiting. He picks one at random - a woman. He takes his new ashtray back to his recliner, balancing the head on his lap. He lights a cigarette and momentarily holds it to the head's lips. Then he sits back and enjoys a smoke with his new lady friend.

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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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