The Right Thing to Do by Mike Murphy

George is a very good nephew.

Type:

Short

Status:

For sale

Page Count:

3pp

Genre:

Drama

Budget:

Shoestring

Age Rating:

13+

Based On:

My short story.

Synopsis/Details:

Senior citizen George Crandall visits the Social Security office and asks them to discontinue his aunt's checks. When asked why by Mrs. Whittaker, the representative, he admits that he is going to kill her at her request. Her sickness has been going on for so long. She wants peace and has asked her nephew to help her.

Mrs. Whittaker is, of course, shocked by this. She assures George that she can take care of any paperwork to stop the checks. Leaving the office, George thanks her, adding that he doesn't want to do anything illegal.

Story & Logistics

Locations:

Single

Characters

Lead Role Ages:

Female over 45, Male over 45

Hero Type:

Ordinary

Advanced

Life Topics:

The Elderly, Approaching Death, Death

Time Period:

Contemporary times

Country:

United States of America (USA)

Time of Year:

Autumn/Fall

Submitted: August 5, 2022

Last Updated: March 19, 2024

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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