WMN
by Doug Hawley
A movie
producer is pitching his ideas to a network
executive. The executive gets things started.
“What do
you want to pitch me?”
“Get
ready to be excited. Listen to these ideas.”
“Her
teenage daughter is in danger from getting mixed
up with a stranger she met on the internet. She
thinks that the stranger is at least forty and
has left a string of broken women behind.”
“Her
husband has a mysterious past. When she
comes home and he is on the phone, he abruptly
hangs up. His two former wives died under
mysterious circumstances. Sometimes she gets
phone calls with nobody on the other end of the
line.”
“Her ex
is stalking her. She keeps getting creepy
email and notes left on her desk. Somebody
has been in her house, but nothing has been taken.”
“A
younger woman from his work obsesses about her
husband and calls him at all hours. Is she
losing her husband to the co-worker?”
“Their
pet has died under mysterious circumstances and
her daughter will only confide in the nanny. She
caught the nanny leaving the bedroom when she got
back unannounced early from a business trip.”
“The
Women’s Movie Network channel has run each
of those plots at least twice in the last three
years.”
“So you’re
not buying?”
“I didn’t
say that. We’ve got a few spots open next
month. Can you get me three of those in forty
days for under a quarter million each?”
“I think
that you got a deal.”
Short
bio - The author is a short little old man.
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