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Short Stories and Screenplays by Hayes Keith Davis
Unpublished Writing:
World War Z - 1.1 The Immune
screenplay - pilot - horror thriller
During the chaos of the origin of a zombie apocalypse, a right-wing Senator and the CDC Director (who is Chinese-American) travel to a university with a man and a woman who are immune to the virus. Is the government trying find a vaccine or are they there to find the truth behind claims that the virus was created in China? The scientists at the university also have a hidden agenda.
We Want You to Have a Mind of Your Own (2025)
short story - drama sci-fi
Seven year-old Sam learns that the imagination gives him the power to cope and survive.
The House of Cats (2025)
short story - coming-of-age horror/thriller
A boy suffering from schizophrenic hallucinations finds redemption for his oppressed inner-city neighborhood through a mysterious ghostly neighbor who lives in a house full of cats.
May-December (2025)
short story - rom-com sci-fi
When time travelling agents alter history, the time travel bureaucracy connects people with the opportunities they missed in the previous reality. Two people are notified that their life together in another reality (dated, married, and had children) was a casualty of an historic time change. They go out on a date and are surprised to learn that he is twice her age.
Published Writing:
short story - action-adventure/thriller
In 1975, a pregnant ingenue meets a man from the future who wants to rescue her from the slave trade, claiming that she is the future Messiah.
Nervous Breakdown (2024)
short story - horror/thriller
A college professor, trapped in a hospital psych ward that is overrun by zombies, recounts the story of how he got there. After being admitted to the hospital for hallucinations caused by paranoid schizophrenia, he meets and falls in love with another patient: a seductive bombshell, who has a mysterious power over others.
short story - romantic comedy
A narcissistic and womanizing movie star returns to college to win the heart of his best friend, but is rejected because she knows better. To get close to her, he resorts to disguising himself as someone else.
short story - political thriller
A middle-aged tabloid journalist, who has always hated his job, is ordered by his new boss to write a fake news story accusing a Democratic Senator of molesting a teenager.
Screenplays:
screenplay - short film - romantic comedy
Its love-at-first sight for a famous journalist and a radiology analyst sitting next to each other on an airplane, only problem is: she is travelling with her fiancé and business partner.
Discipline (2025)
screenplay - short film - drama
A student must confront her professor who gave her a bad grade because she refused to go out with him.
Writer / Co-Director / Co-Cinematographer / Editor
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screenplay - animated series pilot
\A telekinetic and psychic black psychotherapist must sidestep racism and a young boy's wild imagination, to find the source of the young boy's claims of having an imaginary friend.
Nobody's Perfect (1999)
screenplay - pilot - dark comedy
Alice, a freshman film student, starts dating Lenny, a manipulative, corrupt, and foul-mouthed upper-classman film student, who has an uncanny ability to always get his way.
The Commercial Break-Up (2025)
Writer / Director / Producer / Editor
When his girlfriend (the lead news anchor) suddenly announces she has found a new job, a narcissistic weatherman has until the end of tonight's broadcast to win her back.
Other Written Works:
The Date Trilogy (2016)
short story - minimalist rom-com
For Raymond, on three quotidian dates, success in lies in his ability to reduce dramatic conflict.
Madness (2015)
experimental fiction novel - thriller
David (a black high school basketball player, writer, and aspiring musician) runs the school newspaper with his upper-class girlfriend Leslie. Through an investigation into the mystery of life and murder, they learn that her father wants him dead. "Madness" is a diabolical thriller, where a war of words suddenly, and tragically, becomes a ruthless game of cat and mouse.
Jealousy, Love, Revenge.
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