I Wish Tonight by Mike Murphy | Script Revolution

I Wish Tonight

A power isn't always a gift.

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My short story.
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Young Nicky Prescott believes he has the power to heal the sick. When word of this gift gets on the news, Nicky is kidnapped a crime boss’s two thugs. They take him to an abandoned shack. The boss – Mr. Harker – soon arrives.

His five-year-old granddaughter, Becky, is very ill in the hospital. Nicky knows that he shouldn’t talk to strangers, but Harker gets him to agree that he’ll try to make Becky well – mainly because she has never seen an elephant, his favorite animal.

Harker drives Nicky to the hospital. There, he does his best to cure Becky. Now he must go home, wish really hard for it, and sleep on the wish.

An employee of Harker’s takes Nicky home.

Days later, Nicky gets a special-delivery letter – lifetime passes to the zoo from an anonymous donor. On the back of Nicky’s pass is a note from Becky thanking him and promising that she’ll see him by the elephants.

Submitted: November 21, 2024
Last Updated: November 21, 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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