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Municipal Authority

When B.J loses his job as a reporter, he is forced to take a job registering the cognitively compromised to vote; or face the new government Municipal Authority camps for non-producers. This was a semi-finalist in American Gem Screenwriting Competition as Sign on the Bloody Line.

The Municipal Authority has made camps for non-producers in the new dystopian world. Billy Joe, who boasts being a reporter until he loses his job, is forced to take puny jobs from the temporary services or go to the camps. His jobs consists of everything from The Road Kill Crew, Camp Cleanup Crew, to temporary editor for The Municipal Authority.

When BJ is sent on a job getting shut-ins, or cognitively compromised, to sign a voter registration, that is the last straw, or so he tells himself. After being given a list, he realizes the people he meets are drunks, delusional, and mad individuals, and everyone has a story.

Finally he meets the man whose name is circled in red on the list with a warning, "Script Gone! Be careful," the note said. When Script tells BJ he will sign the damn paper if BJ will help him follow through with his plan to kill all the moles in his yard, BJ agrees, knowing he needs at least 10 signatures. That is where everything went wrong. There goes the neighborhood.

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Posted:
12/16/2015
Updated:
07/06/2024
Author Bio:
Judi Blaze is a novelist, former print and media journalist, editor and screenwriter. She has three novels and a book of short stories published and many in the works. She has won many awards for her short stories and her feature screenplay, SQUID JIGGERS, which was a multi-award-winning short story, has placed in two national competitions; semi-finalist in the Nashville Film Festival and a finalist in the Women in Cinema competition. She has also written six short screenplays and has co-written a feature for Big Kid Films.

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