How Aisha Found Peace

SHORT – fantasy / horror

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It’s evening, as shabby sedan navigates the streets of a small town in New Mexico. Eventually it arrives at an unkempt family home. Floyd, a police officer, once shared the house with his wife and kids. He now lives alone.

Floyd’s usual night of getting drunk in front of the TV is interrupted by a colleague, with the news that the CEO of the town’s largest employer (a firearms manufacturer) has been murdered. Annoyed by the idea of the extra work the murder would entail, he is relieved to hear the crime didn’t occur in his jurisdiction.

Later he awakes to find a young Girl standing in the room with him. Alarmed and angry, he demands to know how she got into his house, but she doesn’t answer.

Instead she steps out of the shadows and he sees she is encrusted with dried blood. Freaked out, Floyd stares as she approaches him, digging out a bullet from her mangled torso as she walks. Terrified, Floyd grabs his 9mm and shoots, but the bullets have no effect on the Girl.

With Floyd paralysed with fear, the Girl places her hand with the bullet against his chest ...

Sometime later, red and blue lights flash through the curtains. Floyd, his face fixed with an expression of horror and agony, lies dead in the corner. There is no sign of the Girl.

The Girl, Aisha, smiles out from a photo. It is one among a dozen others affixed to the fence of a school. A memorial to yet another mass shooting.

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Here’s the ‘logistical’ details:

locations
• small town streets – evening
• small town family home – night

actors
• lead (man, 40s)
• colleague (man, 30s – voice only)
• girl (girl about 10yo)

effects etc
• handgun being fired
• bloody wounds (static, i.e. makeup)
• gore and gunshot wound (dynamic)