The Clog
Synopsis/Details:
A plumber is trying to free up a clogged toilet. The homeowner hears a sudden scream from the bathroom and goes to investigate.
Meanwhile, on a nearby planet, an alien plumber is doing the same thing. The clog there turns out to be the Earth plumber, whose dead body comes through the drains broken and mangled.
He thinks what a really deep clog that was.
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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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