Word for Word by Mike Murphy | Script Revolution

Word for Word

Grandma, is that really you?

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Maureen, 42, is surprised that her late grandmother kept a postcard she and her family sent her nearly thirty years ago while on vacation. As she is reading the message written on it, the faded-ink words drop off the card and into a pile (like spaghetti strands) on the table.

A little bit later, the pile bubbles. Full words and single letters crawl out and, like inchworms, make their way to the now-blank space on the postcard. They form a new message: “I’m coming for you.” Maureen is frightened. Surely, this threatening message can’t be from Grandma.

She falls asleep at the table and is awakened by a tap on the shoulder. Grandma!

The senior lady apologizes if she frightened her favorite granddaughter. In sending her message, she was limited to using the words and letters that were previously written on the postcard. She did the best she could.

She holds out a hand to Maureen, who happily takes it. Grandma says it’s time to go to Heaven. She was sent as a guide. She shows Maureen her dead body still at the table. Maureen experienced no pain in passing, which is for the best.
Grandma is anxious to introduce her granddaughter to many wonderful souls and have her see many fantastic things.

Maureen is anxious about the journey. Still holding hands, Grandma promises to always be with her.

Submitted: October 22, 2024
Last Updated: October 22, 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 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 has appeared in many magazines and two dozen anthologies. In... Go to bio

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