Wish You Were Here
Synopsis/Details:
Brent, 30-ish, is very busy at his computer start-up. Many nights, he returns home late to a phone message from his beloved grandma. Busy, he keeps forgetting to call her back. One day, she leaves a message in which she sounds very ill. The next day, she is gone before he can get to the hospital.
Feeling bad, he realizes, to his surprise, that he has more than a dozen of his grandmother's phone messages that he never deleted. Using his computer skills, he is able to create a program where - by splicing and dicing the words in the recordings into grammatically correct sentences - he can talk to his grandma.
He will never be too busy for her 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 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-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition. His prose work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies. In 2015... Go to bio
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