Our Time Deserves A Love Song by Marnie Mitchell Lister (wannabe)
Read by: iScript.com
Special thanks to The Drabble Cast

As you all know, in August we had the August One Week Challenge wherein participants were asked to write a 12 page romantic drama/comedy script based on this piece of music. We had 37 entries. The fine folks over at iScript.com were kind enough to select one script out of the group to be recorded.

The selected script is Our Time Deserves A Love Song by Marnie Mitchell Lister (wannabe) .

An aging musician relives his first love when someone asks what inspired him to write a particular love song.

You can read along with the pdf version of the script here. You can discuss this script and all the OWC entries here. Click the “Play” button to listen to the script.
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Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge. – Don

Very special thanks to iScript.com for sponsoring the challenge and judging the final scripts.

Additional thanks to The Drabble Cast for providing the melody upon which the challenge was based.

Music heart image courtesy of CBC.CA

Michael Cornetto’s web series has finally premiered, Computer Girl an electronic girl trying to find my way through life’s biological problems.

First up: Computer Girl loses her virginity. You can read the script (pdf format).

You can check out the promo below or watch it on either YouTube or on Machinima.com

You can also go to Computer Girl Central on YouTube. Or, read what folks are saying about it on the Discussion Board. – Don

It is no secret that I’m a big fan of short speculative fiction in audio format.

I like to listen to stories on my MP3 player while cleaning the pool.

I strap my MP3 player to my head with a broken bit of swimming goggle strap and then get in the water and walk clockwise around the pool for 10 minutes. This creates an eddy in the middle of the pool where all the leaves, band-aids, scabs, legos and phlegmy stuff collect. I then suck this mass up with a hose. When I do this, I listen to The Drabblecast, an audio podcast of “Strange stories, by strange authors, for strange listeners… such as yourself”.

See? It all makes sense if you just hang in there.

The Drabblecast is a short audio fiction podcast narrated and produced by Norm Sherman and edited by Kendall Marchman and Luke Coddington.

Each episode presents a drabble, which is a story exactly 100 words, and follows with a short story written by some of the best writers in speculative fiction like Mike Resnick and Eugie Foster. The drabbles and stories are generally nothing you’ll find in other podcasts. The Drabblecast “aims to present stories too eccentric, disturbing, funny, and downright fun for more dignified genre publications. ”

So, if you like strange stories about animal death matches or ghosts in computers or hog-faced men, head over to drabblecast.org and download a couple of episodes. Listen to them while cleaning the pool. There is nothing like being discovered floating in the pool in a pink innertube with an mp3 player strapped to your head giggling to yourself – Don

P.S. Oh! Tonight at 11:59 pm edt – the One Week Challenge will be announced. Be there!

Pia’s Big Bad Wolf has been filmed. A young girl’s Christmas present, intended to make her feel safe and secure gives her the fright of her life. – Short, Horror, Suspense. 11 pages. PDF format.

Directed by: Danny Hein of Tidal Wave Films and featuring Jessica DeBaufer & Jacob Henkel

Share the joy here. – Don

A Song In My Heart by Cindy L. Keller

A country singer heads south after losing his job and his girl only to be targeted by an angel who wants him to help a certain girl become a star.

Listen to part 4 of 4
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“With a Song in My Heart” image courtesy of Loretta Alvarado. Please visit her site at How Original.

Baywatch, TJ Hooker and Asteroids (the video game) movies? There is a movie about marriage. ScriptGirl writes a column in ScriptMag.^* A reclusive heiress has her worst dreams come to pass and college grads lower standards upon graduation.

^*True Story: The now defunct SimplyScripts: Voice Over web magazine was first named, “ScriptMag”. Henrick and I didn’t know that there was an actual Screenwriting magazine called “ScriptMag” until we got a lovely and polite email from them asking if we could change our title as Google search results listed SimplyScripts dorky screenwriting magazine first in results.

By the way, MysteryMan on Film also has an article in the latest Script Magazine entitled, “How to Show, Don’t Tell”. The irony. (Get it? “Mystery Man” writes on article, “How to Show…”. I guess it was funnier in my head.). – Don (sort of back from vacation, work and a bout with Lyme disease…).

Thanks to Earl Newton (Creator / Executive Producer of Stranger Things), we have the script (in pdf format) to Stranger Things Episode 5 Disconnect.

When their prize reality star goes missing, a monolithic network enlists the aid of the entire world to find him.

Written by Earl Newton. Story by Earl Newton and J. C. Hutchins

The rundown:
Watch Disconnect
Read the script (pdf)
Check Out the scripts to previous episodes of Stranger Things, the only science fiction anthology shot in High Def.

Family battles demonic activity in Rhode Island, woman sees dark underbelly of pharmaceutical industry, ex-cop recruited to enter the mind of dead people and international espionage.

Soulshadows II is a weekly supernatural anthology series. Join Tanis, each week, as she highlights an item from her collection – each one containing the shadow of a very special soul.

Next up is DaVinci’s Doll by Steven Cameron , Tanis by: Robert Newcomer.

After meeting his hero, Amateur ventriloquist Dale Oliver receives a mysterious gift. 27 pages (pdf format).

Rated PG-13 for bad language and ventriloquism.

Listen to the Script {If you only got half the story, please try again. I fixed what was broken. Thanks to me for the heads up.}
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Check out Steven’s comedy series Better Days.