SIMON MORRELL

Being Bullied Feature Script. What Works Well: The screenplay establishes a compelling emotional throughline rooted in Simon's dual oppression—a violent bully in Joseph and an emotionally abusive father in Peter. This dual-antagonist structure creates layered conflict that feels authentic and avoids the simplistic "one bad guy" formula. The audience has two distinct sources of tension to track, and Simon's growth must address both, which raises the dramatic stakes considerabl

A Murder of Crows.Tommo, Thomas really, but Tommo is his preferred choice of name, leaves his place of work after a hard day of toil. It is a ghastly factory in an even more ghastly area, but it pays the way in the world. First, he is on the small machines and then, at the hands of a malicious foreman who thinks he should do better, the big machines. The ones that really test you, ones you are only supposed to work for a couple of hours, but no, his boss sees to it he is on t

Elephant, a short work of fiction, by Simon Morrell “When I was three years old, maybe almost four, I was fascinated by a carving my parents had on their living room wall. I knew I was this age because we had yet to leave the Merseyside area where I was born. The carving in question was a beautiful work of art of an elephant and a calf, a full 3d wooden affair, tusks and all. The piece didn’t make the journey to live with us in North Wales with us, some months later,