Kidnapped by aliens, a meek college professor learns that the survival of the human race depends upon her performance on an alien-language vocabulary test.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
9pp
Genre:
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
13+
Based On:
My audio script.
Synopsis/Details
A meek college professor is kidnapped by aliens. Their leader begins teaching her alien words. She soon learns that the survival of everyone on Earth depends on her performance on an alien-language vocabulary test. She studies diligently and is relieved when she does very well. However, she soon learns that the idea was to do badly. The alien leader tells her that smart Earthlings would make very poor slaves - someday revolting against their masters.

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Submitted: 2019-May-04
Last Updated: 2024-Oct-16
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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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