hey this fox morph into girl thing. I've seen this somewhere before. Isn't this a chinese mythology?

I like the idea that the ghost of girl is sort of beyond the law of physics and can do as she please. Like turn into a fox. that was nifty.

This script is very ambiguous and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Was the fox spirit a real ghost out for revenge and attack man. Seemed about right until the gutted cat is later seen alive. So now I think the fox spirit is just a figment of man imagination and his guilt for killing girl and so he kill self.

I'll go with the second one.

Other than that good script and fun to read.  

Quoted from tonkatough hey this fox morph into girl thing. I've seen this somewhere before. Isn't this a chinese mythology?

I was wondering if anyone would catch that

Yeah, the fox/girl thing is inspired by the Kitsune in asian mythology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune

The feature I'm working/procrastinating on follows the mythology quite closely. This short script was something of a spin-off from that.

Thanks for reading, glad you enjoyed it. A few people have noted that the end is too ambiguous. To be honest, the animals being alive, and the fox leaving the house at the end were both elements I added as an afterthought. The fox leaving the house is at odds with the "it was all in his head" interpretation, so I should probably remove it.

Hey Martin,

I had to give this one a read since I think you are one of the best writers here.

I do like the idea of the girl/fox, and I agree that the fox leaving the house at the end should be ommitted. That way it was all in his head. I think that's a creepier ending, and a fitting one...

I read through this one twice because there were a couple of things that didn't seem quite right to me...

In the beginning, the girl is flirting with whoever, blowing him a kiss, then when he catches her, she turns into a fox.
Toward the end she says something like, I bet you wish you would have let me go now, don't you. And then something about his wife not giving it to him anymore...

Well, it didn't seem to me that she wanted to be let go. It seemed to me that she wanted it.

She also says that she wanted to be a singer, but her throat had been cut.
I don't know where that came from. ???

Maybe if the fox was held down, and was struggling or if she screamed then we'd realize she didn't want it... and it was all in his head.

And shouldn't we see a knife at some point if he did kill her?

Maybe if you showed the knife cutting the foxes throat after she morphed into the fox... then the whole story would be about how deranged his mind is.

Just my 2 cents.

Cindy

Hey Martin,

This has been sitting on my desktop for weeks and I finally got around to reading it.  As I've come to expect from you, descriptive, sharp imagery is a strong point here.  

As others have said, this is a very ambiguous story.  What is real and what isn't?  What's happening and what's a figment of the imagination?  At first I thought I knew where this was going, what with the dead animal corpses all over the place, but when you showed it from Jenny's perspective, it took on a whole other meaning.  Was Ted seeing things?  He mentions how he's hungover, so maybe he turned to alcoholism and his mind plays games with him -- he killed, so now all he sees is death.  I don't know, just one interpretation for ya.

Overall I enjoyed it very much.  At the end I was thinking, well, maybe there should be just a tad more explanation, but then I stepped back and took a look at the piece as a whole and I think you did just the fine with the way you have it.  I don't know if I've congratulated you on the placement, so congrats!  Good work!