A trauma survivor working in a brothel is hunted by police for a series of ritualistic murders captured on CCTV. But the footage reveals a terrifying anomaly: she is physically mimicking the kill, while an invisible force—the ghost of the baby stolen from her years ago—holds the knife.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
5pp
Genre:
Horror, Thriller
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details

It is 2:14 AM in a suburban brothel. The hallway is bathed in humming red light. On a grainy CCTV monitor, we watch a drunk client force his way into Room 6. Moments later, a disheveled woman sprints out of the room in a panic.

She stops. Composes herself. And walks back toward the danger. But her posture has changed. Her hand is extended down at her side, fingers curled tight around empty air—as if gripping the hand of a small child.

On CCTV: She is alone.
In Reality: A small girl in a pristine dress is there, skipping slightly, humming a broken nursery rhyme.

The woman enters the room. We see the kill through the door crack. The man doesn’t look at the woman; he stares in incomprehensible horror at the empty space beside her. A shadow lunges from below his eyeline. A blade arcs. The woman exits, drenched in blood, still holding the invisible hand. As they walk into the dawn, she looks down at the empty air and whispers: "Good girl".

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The Writer: Jason Somerville

Jason Somerville is a Brisbane-based writer, director, and executive producer working under his production company, Loose Thread Films. His work is preoccupied with identity and the roles we perform, the masks we choose, the ones assigned to us, and the ancient philosophical questions underneath both: how much of who we are was ever ours to author. That inquiry runs through crime drama, horror, and quiet character work alike, from the psychological crime series Undercurrent to the science-fiction property Telos, developed in parallel as a feature and limited series, to The Answer, a short film exploring grief and identity through drag performance. Somerville is the author of the memoir… Go to bio
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