Slugabed

NOTE: This is a radio drama script. George Holst, an aimless young man of wealth and privilege, falls off a balcony at a drunken party and winds up bedridden while recovering from multiple fractures. A private nurse, Deecey Talbot, cares for George while his freeloading cousin, Joseph "Josie" Holst, teases him about the stories with which George's German great-grandmother used to scare him: especially the story that, if he is a "slugabed" and sleeps in too late, a nightmare figure called Mister Munch will reach up from under the bed and take him away. George becomes obsessed with the childhood story and believes it's somehow connected to his parents' deaths and possibly to the history of Germanic Expressionist art. Seeing himself as an involuntary slugabed, he senses impending doom and in desperation looks to Josie and Deecey to save him. When George comes face-to-face with the truth, it's more deeply terrifying than he imagined.