On the anniversary of Mikey’s death Carmy gets news that his tormentor, David Fields, is coming to review the restaurant.. things derail when Carmy severely burns his arm.
W
ritwer Statement:
The first version of A Single Dead was something I poured my heart into.
It came from a desire to tell the story of a father who died on his child’s birthday but kept coming home every year with a cake—pretending he was still alive even as his body decayed.
I wanted to explore love after death, children pretending not to fear the father they already knew was gone, and the idea of letting go.
But…
That warm, sentimental ghost story got rejected by four festivals in a row.
So I tore it apart, stripped it down, and scraped it until the version that reflects who I really am—my darker, more cynical side—finally surfaced.
And that’s the version of A Single Dead you’re reading now:
a story rebuilt out of frustration, irony, and a refusal to play nice anymore.
Biography
David Case attended The Juilliard School for drama after first getting a degree for the University of Illinois. After Juilliard he found himself home watching the kids as his wife worked and he started writing… he’s written many specs and manuscripts and has one published book under the name Jax Spenser. He’s finally taking screenwriting classes at the UCLA Extension program and is three classes away from getting his certificate in Comprehensive Screenwriting. Interesting fact, he also holds a patent for a running aid called, KlickSpeed from his time coaching track and field.