Short Film Scripts
End of the Line
The day-by-day conversations of a college student and the ghost who inhabits her train car to school. Written in Spring 2019, PG-13 audience, 12 pages. MACK: How are you, Oli? He pretends to sit in the seat next to her, but is really floating just above it. Oli is still holding her phone up to him, but he's not showing up on the screen. OLI: I’d be doing a lot better if I could get you on video right now. MACK: Heh, sorry. I’d knock over a water bottle or make a spooky sound, but the video'd look pretty fake. |
Flower
A short horror story about a pair of botanists getting more than they bargained for with the mysterious glowing flower sitting in the middle of the room. Written in Spring 2019, PG-13 audience, 6 pages. Based on the prompt, "2 characters and a monster, one light source, one room, use a flower." ANYA: I think someone lives here. Er, used to live here. It’s certainly been empty for a while. While Anya has her back turned, Angus tries to pick the flower. It pricks him with thorns he didn’t see before. Vertical Divider
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The Kooky Adventures of Security Guard Dale
A man and a woman are fairly certain they're the last two people on Earth, and prepare to repopulate. The teenage security guard watching them should really do something about that. Written in Spring 2019, R audience, 3 pages. Based on the prompt, "At least 2 characters, use a TV and the color orange, end with a twist." A surveillance guard, DALE (19), is scrolling through his phone endlessly in a dark room. The clock reads 2AM. On the televisions in front of him, two blurry figures cuddle in the empty gorilla exhibit. Dale doesn’t notice. |
Comic Scripts
Strawman
In the year 2995, two students from different space colonies studying on Earth travel through virtual reality in order to find the errors of early-millenia people. Written in Spring 2020, originally as a screenplay and later converted into a comic book script. PG audience, screenplay is 9 pages, comic script is for a 9-page comic book. PENGUIN: Is this a Starbucks? LIVI: A what? PENGUIN: Starbucks. Do you not have those on Europa? It’s an Earth coffee chain. They just celebrated 100 years of locations on Mars. The cafe is not, in fact, a Starbucks. It’s a super hipster coffee shop; bar stools, mason jars, succulents, the works. |
Flight Club
One human student at an all-monster school of magic tries to join a club that, theoretically, they really shouldn’t fit into. Written as a webtoon-style comic made for the It Gets Better Project, with inclusion and diversity as the core tenets. I worked in collaboration with my classmates for the story and comic, but the script is fully written by me. Written in Fall 2020, PG audience, 13 pages/38 panels. DESMOND: My friend, you absolutely can join our club. We have a competition coming up and you can be our fifth! What my scaly friend was asking was, do you have wings? GALE: Er, no. DESMOND: Gliders? GALE: Nope. DESMOND: Any means of flight whatsoever? GALE: ...not yet. DESMOND: We’ll work with it! |
Short Stories
Shape-speare, Shake-shifter
A short story about a shapeshifter who just so happens to be part of an acting ensemble for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The assignment was to write about identity and the self– this is my interpretation of that assignment, in a rather self-indulgent way. Written in Fall 2019, PG audience, 2000 words. My name is Shay, and I woke up one morning with an entirely different face. I wasn’t the first one to notice it. My bedroom didn’t have a mirror at the time, so I simply woke up and went about my morning. Soon enough, my roommate woke up too. She screamed when she looked at me for the first time, demanding to know who I was. I didn’t believe her until she pulled out her phone and turned on the front-facing camera. I squinted someone else’s eyes, opened a mouth I didn’t know, and screamed. |