Steven Page
Writing Works
"American Junkie"
*Short Story
Genre: Dystopian Drama
Synopsis: A bi-polar man searches for a way to save his girlfriend from an ancient incurable disease in a dark city where drug dependency has riddled all of America and its citizens barren and ignorant.
Word Count: 3,204
Battle of the Sexes
*Screenplay
Genre: Science Fiction/Action Drama
Synopsis: When an American physicist discovers a way in which to create a portal to another dimenson, he decides to explore the portal. But after he fails to return, a private rescue mission is formed from former military personel into a strange world where men and women are at war with each other. The mission becomes even more complicated when one of the military men falls for a native woman.
Page Count: 97
Word Count: 17,985
"A Drama in E-Minor"
*One-Act Play
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: A man with dissociative amnesia struggles with the mysterious death of his infant child several years earlier, using his wife's death bed confessions and his own enigmatic dreams to understand the truth.
Page Count: 33
Word Count: 4,607
Cast: 2 males, 1 female
Note: 2013 Writes of Spring 1st place winner. Excerpt previously published in The Metrosphere, April 2014.
"Growing Up Baseball"
*Article
Genre: Creative Memoir
Synopsis: I explain what it was like for myself and others my age to grow up as baseball fans during the steriod era in the MLB.
Word Count: 2,418
"Eleven in Eleven"
*Short Screenplay
Genre: Comedy
Synopsis: A mysterious man named "Cue" helps a young man and woman find love through prompting the man through eleven steps designed to be done from 11:11am to 11:11pm.
Page Count: 17
Word Count: 3,440
Cast: 2 males, 1 female
Note: Latest draft is still a little rough. Revisions would be needed before the screenplay is used.
"Lovely Miss Sally"
*Short Play
Genre: Comedy
Synopsis: A man falls in love with a woman and agrees to meet her at a coffee shop shortly before his death. He arrives at the coffee shop as a ghost where he realizes only the barista can see him.
Page Count: 10
Word Count: 1,847
Cast: 3 male, 1 female
"Some Assembly Required"
*Memoir
Genre: Creative Memoir
Synopsis: Struggling with getting back into the dating game after a year of celibacy and decerning priesthood, I deal with my own self-loathing and past heartbreaks while giving a snapshot into the sex crazed male mind.
Word Count: 3,507
Note: 2014 Writes of Spring 3rd place winner.
"Speak"
*Short Story
Genre: Dystopian Drama
Synopsis: In a world where population mandates have caused people to turn toward genetic engineering to create the perfect child, a psychologist performs research on a "failed" created girl that was born blind and without vocal chords. With a bill coming down from Congress to allow the extermination of the disabled, the psychologist must fight to prove the worth of this disabled yet talented young girl.
Word Count: 3,965
"Tom and Siri"
*Short MOS Screenplay
Genre: Comedy/Satire
Synopsis: Essentially Cast Away with an i-pad and a touch of Lost.
Page Count: 9
Word Count: 1,992
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