Thy Branches by Mike Murphy | Script Revolution

Thy Branches

It will have to do.

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My short story.
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Four characters are seen only as single, different-colored gloves – a mother, a father, a son, and a daughter.
Something unseen is being brought up from the basement for decorating. Sadly, it is not in the best shape, but the parents decide it’ll have to do.

The kids have a hard time decorating the thing. It is fragile, and there aren’t many good places to hang the baubles.

Once done, the father steps back to admire his family’s work. It is then that we see what they were decorating: A deteriorating, male, human corpse. The father is slowly revealed as a one-handed alien, just like his wife and children.
Dad can probably order a fresh display for next time – maybe even a female one. Since his people’s invasion of Earth, there are many bodies to choose from.

Submitted: October 12, 2024
Last Updated: October 13, 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

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