Elderly Mrs. Washburn should have thought twice about how convenient it was that the exterminator showed up just when she needed him.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
4pp
Genre:
Crime
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
17+
Based On:
My audio script.
Synopsis/Details
After finding ants in her home for the first time ever, a senior woman is happily surprised to see a new-to-the-neighborhood exterminator at her door passing out fliers. He explains that her trouble doesn't mean that she isn't keeping a clean house, but that the ants have found a way in. She hires him on the spot. When she later comes down to the kitchen to check on his progress, he sprays her with the bug spray - killing her. With her dead on the floor, he calmly calls her husband, informing him that the job is done. She suffered little, and it will look like an accident. They talk of his fee, and the woman's husband mentions that he may have another customer for the exterminator. One problem: The person to be exterminated is a man. The exterminator tells him that's no problem because "a pest is a pest."

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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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