Soup's On

In a remote diner during a bad snowstorm, a man unwisely accepts an invitation to meet a woman who he wronged years earlier.

Type:

Short

Status:

For sale

Page Count:

7pp

Genre:

Crime, Drama

Budget:

Shoestring

Age Rating:

17+

Based On:

My audio script.

Synopsis/Details:

In a bad snowstorm, a man heads to a remote diner to meet a woman from his past. Long ago, he wronged her, and he is anxious to make amends. While waiting, he purchases some gumbo from one of the waitresses, not knowing that she - in reality, the woman from his past - has spiked it with a deadly drug. As he collapses and dies, the waitress remarks how her fellow worker's ex will be here tomorrow night. As they carry the body of the dead man back to the kitchen, she says, grabbing a cleaver, that it's a good thing they all "taste like chicken."

Story & Logistics

Story Conclusion:

Sad

Linear Structure:

Linear

Cast Size:

Few

Locations:

Single

Characters

Lead Role Ages:

Male Middle Aged

Villian Type:

Femme/Homme Fatale

Advanced

Equality & Diversity:

Female Centric

Time Period:

Contemporary times

Country:

United States of America (USA)

Time of Year:

Winter

Relationship Topics:

Separation

Submitted: May 4, 2019

Last Updated: October 24, 2022

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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