A few years back, a request came in to the writers Meet Up group Owl Goingback was running in the Orlando area.
A student up in Gainesville needed a short mystery piece to shoot for a film class. I'd spent a bit of time teaching creative writing by then, gradually emerging from a creative coma induced by 12 years in a marketing job plus one damaging semester in an MFA program with a writing professor who'd go on to break the internet with a column on his harsh outlook on students. (I graduated with an MFA, but I still refer to that semester as The Lost Semester.)
A short time before, I'd written a bit of flash that landed at a webzine called DM du Jour.
To help out a student, I though sure, I can adapt that into a quick script, and I did.
It was fun to do, but, as happens in the collaborative process, some adaptation of my script transpired for shooting. One character became two, and, partly for logistics I suspect, a moment in the story was reinterpreted.
It didn't quite do what I'd envisioned in musing about timelines and mysterious visitors.
I didn't say much about the product, which was mainly for a class anyway. The student got an A for her effort. I didn't think much about it.
But literally as I was walking this morning, in my current timeline, I thought, maybe the reinterpretation played even more with timelines and many-worlds interpretation.
So, look above. The short student film from my tale Decoherence can be viewed, and the short-short tale can still be read online as well.
