Writing Samples

Some of my best pieces of writing. A few short sketches and short stories, plus the first 10 pages of my current script projects. Please contact me if you wish to see more of them.

Ovid Marshall: Dinomancer

Drama Pilot. Teaser and First Act.
Autistic teenager Ovid Marshall has his world turned upside down when the ancient soul of a T.Rex is fused with his during a field trip. Thrust into a world of ancient cabals struggling for power, Ovid must channel the dinosaur’s power to survive.

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Feature Screenplay, first 10 pages.
In a near-future Chicago, teenage fangirl Haley Huang discovers her idol Duncan Q has been brutally murdered – except his digital persona remains, so no one knows of the crime except her. A pulse-pounding thrill ride chock full of mind uploads, shapeshifting cyborgs, and overbearing moms.

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Emergence

Feature Screenplay, First 10 Pages.
When neurotic entomologist Silas Sawyer returns to his Rust Belt hometown for his father’s funeral, he discovers his father’s cause of death was more unnatural than most – and uncovers  a gruesome secret about the town. A killer insect creature feature with a social edge.

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Return on Investment

Comedy Sketch.
A sinister biotech corporate leader with designs on world domination is flummoxed by questions from his institutional investors. A silly spoof on the narrative of the video game series Resident Evil

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Maximum Comfort Factor

Comedy Sketch.
A door-to-door mattress salesman finds himself trying to sell to a couple in the middle of a messy divorce.

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Another Orphan

Prose Short Story.
After the end of Moby-Dick, Ishmael wanders the world searching for closure, turning his body into a patched-together tattoo map. Fanfiction, of a sort.

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A Gathering of Karens

Novella. Incomplete.
A suburban mom book club begins to fall apart as political tensions rise outside of their bubble world.

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