Always call back your grandmother.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
7pp
Genre:
Fantasy
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Based On:
My audio script.
Synopsis/Details
Brent, 30-ish, is very busy at his computer start-up. Many nights, he returns home late to a phone message from his beloved grandma. Busy, he keeps forgetting to call her back. One day, she leaves a message in which she sounds very ill. The next day, she is gone before he can get to the hospital. Feeling bad, he realizes, to his surprise, that he has more than a dozen of his grandmother's phone messages that he never deleted. Using his computer skills, he is able to create a program where - by splicing and dicing the words in the recordings into grammatically correct sentences - he can talk to his grandma. He will never be too busy for her again.

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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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