Creep Out by Jeff Strand
Ezra went home for his father’s funeral. He left with an unwanted inheritance: a ventriloquist dummy named Virgil.
Virgil gave him the creeps, but so did all dummies, with their dead eyes and unnerving smiles. There was nothing actually evil about Virgil, right? Of course not.
Ezra drove back on a desolate, winding road. He had music to keep him occupied, as he attempted to ignore the unnerving dummy sitting beside him in the passenger seat.
He told himself that Virgil couldn’t move on his own, though the dummy's head was somehow staring at him.
Poor Ezra was about to have a very bad accident. One that would leave him trapped where he might never be found. Trapped with Virgil, who was not a very nice dummy. Virgil, who was about to make this blood-soaked nightmare so much worse…
Characters:
Ezra: Male 30's
Virgil - dummy: Speakes with a Brox accent.
Clarence - Also a male in his 30's. The 1938 flashback chapters are from his POV
Audition Due 4/18/2024
Narrator: Male - mid 30's sounding
Accent: General American w/Bronx for the dummy
Genre: Horror
Word Count: 44,000
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