Not knowing she planned on killing him, a disabled businessman finances a time machine so his wife can be saved from an accidental death.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
23pp
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
17+
Based On:
My audio script.
Synopsis/Details
A wheelchair-bound businessman pays for the development of a time machine so his long-dead wife can be saved from an accidental death. Afraid to lose his funding, the machine's developer agrees to make the trip and save her - regardless of what the consequences might be to the timeline. Only too late does he realize that his boss's wife, in the original timeline, was on her way to kill her husband so she could run off with her lover. She is now free to do that again.

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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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