An electric power outage leads to a life-changing encounter for a solitary older man.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
9pp
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Based On:
My audio script.
Synopsis/Details
When the electricity goes out in part of his home, an elderly, pompous man is forced to swallow his pride and descend to the basement to fix it. There he meets a swirling ball of light calling itself "Power." It has interrupted his electricity. Power and those like it are upset at how people have been using it every day without a single thought to its well being. Power lashes out at the old man, taking him over and turning him into its agent. When the old man calls the electric company to tell them that their fix didn't work, they set a time that a representative can visit. The possessed man thinks what better way to start the revolt than with an employee of the very company that has imprisoned them for so long.

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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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