Sunday is the Worst Day to Die of The Plague by Julius Caesar  - Short, Drama, Cartoon - A terrible secret is revealed at a family picnic. - pdf, format 8)

I think this is a wicked cool script.  It's what if Disney made horror flicks!

Only true thing you've said all day Steven! I liked this one, bit weird though... Well done.

Quoted from Tommyp Only true thing you've said all day Steven! I liked this one, bit weird though... Well done.

Hmmph!  I've never told a fib in my life!!

This one was strange, but it was an odd, interesting take on a drama...Told through animals...Jorge reminds me of a young me (I'd always pull the legs off the Crane Flies or put June Bugs in microwaves) so I had someone to relate to. A shame he got the plague though......

Sean

This was interesting, and not badly written either.  I guess it meets the challenge, as well.

Unique aspect to this for sure.  I guess I kinda like it.  Good job.  Is it really drama, though?  I don't know, but then again, I guess drama is pretty much anyhting and everything.

Best so far...by far!

Man, this was weird. Well-written, but very weird.

When the squirrels first started talking about a revenge plot, I immediately thought of Family Guy, the episode where Meg does her bird calls, and two pigeons get really pissed at her ("I'm gonna go over there" -- "No" -- "I'm gonna go over there and punch her.")

Good work.

So far...this has risen to the top of the first 6 posted.  Unique, creative, with a twist of revenge.

I liked it.

Morgan

What can I say, format excellent. Very visual.
I didn't believe a boy could just be plain cruel without the parents even having an inkling or the sister not telling on him except when his parents confronted him. Didn't make sence.
What were the children's ages?

I really liked this one. Pretty disturbing little kid but a real nice, revenge story with good motivation and believable dialogue. Very imaginative and well written.

I would have liked to know the kids' ages though, that's my one compaint.

Cool story! My only qn is why is Jorge the way he is? Because I didnt know, the end felt a little incomplete. Just a tad. Really, it doesnt matter. Just what I was left thinking. Anyway, Nice!

I liked this one, I was even a little creeped out by how bad Jorge really was. It would have been nice to know the ages of the kids but maybe it's not that important.

I would love to see this in made into a cartoon.

I like this (melo)drama. In some place I can almost hear William Shatner's VO for Sam.

This was brilliant, a great idea and a well executed script. I am most impressed. I love the title too, one of the best titles for any script I have ever read at SS.

Very nicely done.

This was a good script.  And odd and creative piece that was interesting to read.  A nice take on the theme and nothing to complain about.

Awwwww! How sweet!  I'd keep Jorge away from the potato salad, the little bastard!  This was great.  A little hard to read, but nice to see Jorge get his in the end.  Nicely done!

The title alone interested me on this one, and it gave nothing away about the story, which I liked that aspect of it.

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people might say that it was overly violent and visiually disturbing for a cartoon, but I liked that aspect of it, too.  Who says there can't be adult cartoons with swearing?

I also thought it was an interesting take on the OWC, doing a cartoon.

Very well written, with good drama and a picnic, though I have to admit, that kind of torture to animals doesn't really get by parents that often.

Still a good story, though.

- Mark

Yeah, a bit on the bizarre side, but fun...Something Ralph Bakshi might have done back in the day...How old was Jorge, the ant grinder, wing pulling serial killer to be? Makes a difference if he's 6 versus 13...No Proper introduction for Mom and Dad either, which gives the impression that this turned out relatively quickly...Really liked Vanessa's run on dialogue that would never stop for a breath even though she was turning blue she still had to get that last thought out before...phew...The squirrels,  Sam and Lorraine, having human names made it a little more tricky to read...(Personally, it would have been slightly more twisted if Dad was typical redneck and secretly approved of his little squirts shenigans...as it is, he's just kind of bland...Liked the title and the creative manner in which vengence was wrought...one of the only manners that a squirrel can take out a snot nosed little punk...

Is Squirrel Noir a genre? Perhaps it will be...