Beware the Muse

Drama/Thriller.  10 min.

2 W  1 M  with 1 W doubled as OS voice

Set: minimal or a castle

Three friends spend a snowy Christmas night in the home of Lord Dudley. A mysterious What would you give to write your best work? Would you ask for supernatural help? Sell your soul? SEAMUS, writer of fiction and poetry, hasn't published any work since his last - seven years ago. Everything he has written has been rejected for numerous reasons. In an act of desperation, he calls for someone/something to help him - to be his muse. SOPHIA, SEAMUS' niece, a promising film director and producer takes her uncles work, adapts it into a film. Is her success without assistance?