Death Be Not Pwned

Michael knew his weekend was going to be a nightmare. On top of long hours at his after-school job delivering pizzas, he’s struggling to write the college application essay he hopes will get him into Harvard—and the deadline is Monday. But the real nightmare begins when he runs over somebody on his way home from work and realizes the eccentric old man he hit isn’t dressed like the Grim Reaper because he’s on his way to a Halloween party. He really is Death. And now he has a broken leg, and somebody has to drive him to his fatal “appointments.” Can Michael finish his essay, keep his job, and win the girl of his dreams, all while serving as Death’s unwilling chauffeur? Can he convince the police there’s an innocent reason he was at the scene of a grisly murder—and do it before the real killers catch up with him? And with lives on the line and his future at stake, can he cheat Death in the ultimate challenge: a one-on-one game of Halo?

Mark Edward Edens has written four plays, a movie or two, and too much television. His credits include the Disney Channel movies Don't Look Under the Bed and The Luck of the Irish and multiple episodes of the Ryan Gosling series Young Hercules. He's written over a hundred scripts for animated shows ranging from Beetlejuice and The Real Ghostbusters to the cult favorite Exosquad and the pilot for the original X-Men series. Never having met Death, he lives in Sewanee, Tennessee.