Shadow Films
Novelette 9,148 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Alvin’s scripts arrived in yellow envelopes. They were hand delivered, placed inside his letter box as if part of the regular mail, but with no address or stamps on it. The scripts were typed on unlined paper. They were short, never longer than a page, never more than a scene. The scene would be set inside a shop, or a bar."
Content warnings 2
deathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Lightspeed, where the author gets the click.