A young widow thinks her late husband needs her help when the inscription on her wedding band starts changing.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
21pp
Genre:
Fantasy, Mystery
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Based On:
My audio script.
Synopsis/Details
When the inscription on her wedding band keeps changing, a widow concludes that her late husband needs her help. Her mother-in-law tries to dissuade her from that idea, but she won't listen. The inscription keeps changing - almost daily - to the point where the widow is found atop her late husband's sealed casket, hysterical and desperately trying to open it. Resting at her mother-in-law's house, she is surprised to find a drawer full of wedding bands - all inscribed and her size. Her mother-in-law has been changing them often on her, hoping to have her declared incompetent so her son's estate will go to her. A small price to pay for millions. As the mother-in-law is just about to kill her daughter-in-law, she slips on a ring on the floor, shooting and killing herself. The widow realizes that the ring was her true wedding band.

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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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