Holiday cards make Derek mad.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
1pp
Genre:
Horror
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
17+
Based On:
My short story.
Synopsis/Details
Derek, a 65-year-old oddball loner, is disturbed when he receives a holiday card in the mail. He feels that the people pictured on the card are making fun of him because he doesn't have what they do. Chanting an ancient incantation from an old book, he sets the card on fire. It burns slowly, allowing the people in the picture time to come to life and panic. The smell of smoke is in the air, and there is no way to escape their small, four-sided, paper prison. Derek smiles and drops the burning card in a metal barrel, smiling because he has many more matches.

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Submitted: 2022-Jul-31
Last Updated: 2024-Mar-19
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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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