The creators of American Horror Story have decided that the fad of episodes confined to a season’s theme was so yesterday. Usher in American Horror Stories (#ahstories or #AHSs), one off stories connected to the bigger FXmultiverse. I’m glad American Horror Story is back. It’s absent during this pandemic was felt. The original anthology series…
Read moreACT 3, SCENE 1 INT: AMED/LINDA HOME – NIGHT LINDA BUTLER comes running into the front door of the house. LINDA: Amed. Amed, where are you? The house is dark. LINDA turns on the light, but everything appears normal. In the distance, there are voices. She follows them into the LIVING ROOM, where…
Read moreTEASER BLACK SCREEN. HEAVY PANTING AND SNIFFLING. DIAL TONE and 3 LOUD BEEPS. DISPATCHER (O.S.): 911, what’s your emergency? A CHILD starts to cry. His voice is trembling. In the BACKGROUND, hysterical screaming and a crying baby. DISPATCHER (O.S.): Hello? 911, what’s your emergency? BOY (O.S.): Send help please….
Read moreAct 4, SCENE 1 INT: RISE CHURCH – HALLWAY: AFTERNOON There is a line outside REV MAC’S DOOR. People are standing or sitting on benches patiently waiting to see him. Some are praying furiously and others are crying. On the closed door is REV MAC’S nameplate and his listed office hours. We hear OS SOBBING…
Read moreACT 3, SCENE 1 INT: RISE: AME CHURCH – BASEMENT/SOUP KITCHEN – DAY Focus on MAYOR APOSTOLOU has his face buried in his hands. He grunts in pain. A worker walks into the kitchen area and hands OMAR BUTLER a bottle of water. OMAR shoos the worker away so he and the MAYOR are alone…
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TEASER ACT 1, SCENE 1 INT: RISE: AME CHURCH – DAY There is a funeral at RISE, and the service is packed. Peace lilies adorn the church, and a coffin sits before an altar. SISTER NETTA is standing in front of the congregation with a choir behind her. SISTER is singing a beautiful hymn passionately….
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ACT 5, SCENE 1 INT: OFFICE – LATE NIGHT OMAR walks through the door of the MAYOR’S OFFICE. Plush seats and carpeted floor. The MAYOR is in a large leather-back swiveling chair with his back towards the door. OMAR: Pulling an all-nighter? MAYOR swings around. He has a half-finished bottle of whiskey in…
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Subject matter and language no suitable for all readers. ACT 4, SCENE 1 EXT: CANIFF PARK – LATE NIGHT In the background, the HEIGHTS glisten. Caniff Park is a large woodland trail for runners and bikers like Boston Commons or Central Park. AC METRO BUS hisses and roars OS. SHAUNICE and LEIGH, both dressed to…
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Astro City Pilot/ ‘Welcome to the AC’ Written by M. J. Cross TEASER Act 1, SCENE 1 INT: HOME Blood shot brown EYES dart wildly from left and right. The EYES keep moving behind a long wooden MASK with an elongated chin and puckered mouth. It appears tribal, but has an alien quality to…
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